Developing a medical emergency team running sheet to improve clinical handoff and documentation.

Karen Mardegan; Melodie Heland; Tifany Whitelock; Robert Millar; Daryl Jones

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Developing a medical emergency team running sheet to improve clinical handoff and documentation.

January 19, 2014

Mardegan K, Heland M, Whitelock T, et al. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2013;39(12):570-575.

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This study group created a standardized running sheet for documenting medical emergency team (MET) events at their medical center. About half of ward nurses felt that this tool improved patient handoffs to the arriving METs.

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