Background Handoffs are a weak link in the chain of clinical care of inpatients. Within-unit handoffs are increasing in frequency due to changes in duty hours. There are strong rationales for ...

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I will be summarizing the nursing knowledge needed in the ICU once a month. What is needed for nurses working in the ICU is not just guts. What is needed is "evidence-based knowledge" to protect ...

Same day emergency care (SDEC) allows specialists, where appropriate, to assess, diagnose and treat patients on the same day of arrival who would otherwise have been admitted to hospital. It is part ...

Objective To systematically review the available evidence on paediatric early warning systems (PEWS) for use in acute paediatric healthcare settings for the detection of, and timely response to, ...

An example of the heterogeneity was the duration of the study periods, which varied by a factor of at least 50 for each component of the study. These two aspects of the literature, heterogeneity and ...