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Area of Science:

  • Pediatric critical care medicine
  • Patient safety research
  • Healthcare systems engineering

Background:

  • Unrecognized clinical deterioration in hospitalized children poses significant risks.
  • Enhancing care team situation awareness (SA) is linked to better patient outcomes.
  • Previous safety events highlighted the need to improve SA in inpatient settings.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To decrease emergency transfers (ETs) to the intensive care unit (ICU) by 50% over 10 months.
  • To address communication inadequacies and evolving technology impacting SA.
  • To implement a proactive process for predicting, preventing, and responding to clinical deterioration.

Main Methods:

  • An interdisciplinary team, including families, refined the SA model for clinical deterioration.
  • Key drivers included establishing a shared mental model, safe escalation, and effective SA tools.
  • Novel interventions like family-inclusive huddles, checklists, signage, and an EHR SA navigator were evaluated using time series analysis.

Main Results:

  • Emergency transfers (ETs) decreased from 1.34 to 0.41 per 10,000 patient-days, a nearly 70% reduction.
  • Improvements were observed in risk recognition before medical response team activation.
  • Process measures indicated enhanced shared SA among care teams.

Conclusions:

  • An innovative, proactive process significantly reduced ETs, improving patient safety.
  • The intervention demonstrated a reliable method for managing clinical deterioration.
  • Involving families and interdisciplinary teams was crucial for success.