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Have you had experience with insufficient patient monitoring and failure to rescue? What can be done?
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Failure to Rescue
Dec 03, 2014
Patient Safety Alert 22: Failure to Rescue (PDF)
The AMC PSO has recently assembled a panel of subject matter experts to review data, literature, and their own experiences with insufficient patient monitoring and failure to rescue.
Case-Type Review
To gain a better understanding of failure to rescue’s causes and potential solutions, the AMC PSO assembled a panel of subject matter experts to review the following:
- Analyzed patient safety event data offered a representative view of the risks associated with failure to rescue.
- Failure to recognize clinical deterioration and barriers to escalation.
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