“It’s Parallel Universes”
Critical Care MedicinePublished 16 July 2015
Barbara Haas, Lesley Gotlib Conn, Gordon D. Rubenfeld, Damon C. Scales, André Carlos Kajdacsy-Balla Amaral, Niall D. Ferguson
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Major barriers to optimal communication between surgical and ICU teams exist in the intensivist-led ICU environment, many related to the structures and processes meant to facilitate communication across teams and others to how some aspects of care in the ICU are conceptualized.
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Major barriers to optimal communication between surgical and ICU teams exist in the intensivist-led ICU environment. Many are related to the structures and processes meant to facilitate communication across teams and others to how some aspects of care in the ICU are conceptualized. Multiple actionable opportunities exist to improve communication in the intensivist-led ICU.
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