Tiny Perfusion Letter #771

Tiny Perfusion Letter

Communication is key, right?

We all know that; or we learned it somewhere along whatever education we went through; or heard it during a presentation at a meeting… So, we all agree that if we communicate properly, we can avoid harmful events and improve patient safety?

Okay

Then why aren’t we doing it?

A recent systematic review investigating how poor communication between health care practitioners and patients (and between different groups of practitioners) affects patient safety, reveals that in 13.2% of safety incidents, poor communication was the only identified cause. When investigating whether poor communication contributed to patient safety incidents alongside other causes, poor communication contributed to 24.0% of safety incidents… (a neat video summary of the study was published too)

Those are almost always incidents that are preventable, with good communication

We all know it. Now, we just need to do it

Spoiler: we can’t say it enough, so the next TEL will repeat this message. Sorry, not sorry

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