Abstract
The topic of patient safety has received much attention in recent years. There are a number of areas in which the subject of patient safety impacts respiratory care practice. This paper focuses on articles published in 2014 related to pressure injury, handoffs, protocols and multidisciplinary teams, perioperative obstructive sleep apnea, and readmissions.
Footnotes
- Correspondence: Dean Hess PhD RRT FAARC, Respiratory Care Services, Ellison 401, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit Street, Boston, MA 02114. E-mail: dhess{at}partners.org.
Dr Hess presented a version of this paper at the Year in Review 2014 of the AARC Congress 2014, held December 9–12, 2014, in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Dean Hess discloses relationships with Philips Respironics, PARI, Merck, Bayer, McGraw-Hill, Jones & Bartlett Learning, UpToDate, and the American Board of Internal Medicine.
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