Publications by authors named "Patti Mercurio"
Article Synopsis
- The project aimed to reduce lost operating room (OR) time caused by last-minute surgery cancellations, which can be costly and distressing for families.
- Key strategies included improving communication with families, ensuring adherence to fasting rules, and making decisions regarding patient health ahead of the surgery day.
- After implementing effective preoperative instructions and reminders, the average time lost due to cancellations significantly decreased from 5.7 to 3.6 hours and overall from 6.6 to 5.5 hours per day across all surgical services.
The surgical consent serves as a key link in preventing breakdowns in communication that could lead to wrong-patient, wrong-site, or wrong-procedure events. We conducted a quality improvement initiative at a large, urban pediatric academic medical center to reliably increase the percentage of informed consents for surgical and medical procedures with accurate safety data information at the first point of perioperative contact. Improvement activities focused on awareness, education, standardization, real-time feedback and failure identification, and transparency.
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