How nurses and physicians judge their own quality of care for deteriorating patients on medical wards: self-assessment of quality of care is suboptimal.
Ludikhuize J, Dongelmans DA, Smorenburg SM, et al. How nurses and physicians judge their own quality of care for deteriorating patients on medical wards: self-assessment of quality of care is suboptimal*. Crit Care Med. 2012;40(11):2982-6. doi:10.1097/CCM.0b013e31825fe2cb.
Although nurses and physicians mostly judged the care they provided to patients in the hours preceding a cardiopulmonary arrest or unplanned transfer to the intensive care unit as good, an independent expert panel was less charitable, pointing to frequent delays in recognition of deterioration.