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Insights into Imaging
Fig. 1 | Insights into Imaging

Fig. 1

From: Imaging intensive care patients: multidisciplinary conferences as a quality improvement initiative to reduce medical error

Fig. 1

Patient flow chart. Multidisciplinary conferences (MDC) for a medical and for a surgical intensive care unit (ICU) were introduced at this university hospital in 2018. The MDCs take place twice a week separately for the medical and surgical ICU. Radiologists present recent imaging studies which are then re-interpreted and discussed a second time with the treating ICU physicians. Bilateral feedback is provided and the occurrence of QM events is documented. Standardised protocols of all scheduled MDCs were collected over a 19-month period and analysed with regard to different QM categories and QM consequences. For some days, no MDCs were scheduled due to public holidays (n = 10) or organisational reasons (n = 63)

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