Ward round template: enhancing patient safety on ward rounds. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

Ward round template: enhancing patient safety on ward rounds. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

• Commentary
 
• Published April 2018

Ward round template: enhancing patient safety on ward rounds.

Gilliland N, Catherwood N, Chen S, Browne P, Wilson J, Burden H. BMJ Open Qual. 2018;7:e000170.

Incomplete communication regarding patient information can diminish the safety of care delivery. This commentary describes how a quality improvement project applied plan–do–study–act cycles to enhance collection of patient data. Researchers developed, tested, and refined a ward round template in a United Kingdom urology service and increased compliance in the recording of patient care measures.

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