Improving the quality of the operating room to intensive care unit handover at an urban teaching hospital through a bundled intervention

摘要: Abstract Study objective To evaluate the efficacy of a bundled intervention to improve quality operating room intensive care unit (ICU) clinical handover. Design Prospective, interventional study. Setting An urban, public teaching hospital with more than 1500 direct postoperative ICU admissions each year. Interventions A include addition anesthesia provider nurse telephone report, mnemonic standardize handover process, and improved template for documentation by team. Measurements Preintervention (baseline) postintervention survey data were solicited from key stakeholders, which included providers nursing staff. Main results Anesthesia staff satisfaction levels rose significantly following implementation intervention. In addition, perceived effectiveness process note increased significantly. The level nurses respect phone report received before patient arrival in nearly doubled. Conclusions was associated stakeholder as well perception overall documentation.