April Journal: Study on consumer reporting of early patient deterioration in hospital; and Conversations on Quality and Patient Safety on antibiotic stewardship
A new study in the April 2024 issue of The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety (JQPS), investigates clinicians’ views on consumer reporting (by patients, family members or visitors) of early patient deterioration through an established hospital consumer-initiated escalation-of-care (CIEoC) system. Two activation pathways (direct and indirect) are available for consumers to report patient deterioration and alert the rapid response system (RRS) for early emergency medical treatment in the CIEoC system:
- Direct activation provides consumers with access to the RRS to report/seek treatment for deteriorating patients.
- Indirect activation guides consumers to report their concerns to healthcare staff who decide when to call the RRS.
Also featured in the April issue are:
- Implementation of a Continuous Patient Monitoring System in the Hospital Setting: A Qualitative Study (Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston)
- Implementing Multiple Digital Technologies in Health Care: Seeing the Unintended Consequences for Patient Safety (editorial)
- Standardizing Patient Safety Event Reporting between Care Delivered or Purchased by the Veterans Health Administration
- National Survey of Patient Safety Experiences in Hospital Medicine During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Harnessing In Situ Simulation to Identify Human Errors and Latent Safety Threats in Adult Tracheostomy Care (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York City)
- Evaluation of Objective Appropriateness Criteria for Daily Labs in General Medicine Inpatients (Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at University of Nevada, Las Vegas)
As part of the 50th anniversary of JQPS, a special collection of articles featuring past publications on antibiotic stewardship also are in the April issue, along with a new article on Leveraging Health Systems to Expand and Enhance Antibiotic Stewardship in Outpatient Settings (commentary).
Also see the new Conversations on Quality and Patient Safety that delves deeper into the topic of antibiotic stewardship. Conversations on Quality and Patient Safety is an ongoing video series highlighting articles and issues from JQPS. The interview, hosted by David W. Baker, MD, MPH, editor-in-chief, JQPS, features two leading figures in the field of antibiotic stewardship.
- Arjun Srinivasan, MD, deputy director for Program Improvement, Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- Payal Patel, MD, system wide director, Antimicrobial Stewardship, associate professor, director of Infectious Diseases, Intermountain Health and the University of Utah