This article summarizes the proceedings of a breakout session, "Interventions to Safeguard System Effectiveness," at the 2011 Academic Emergency Medicine consensus conference, "Interventions to Assure Quality in the Crowded Emergency Department." Key definitions fundamental to understanding the effectiveness of emergency care during periods of emergency department (ED) crowding are outlined. Ne...

Marie Warrer Petersen, Linea Natalie Toksvang, Ronni R. Plovsing, and Ronan M. G. Berg Centre of Inflammation and Metabolism, Department of Infectious Diseases, University Hospital Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark; Intensive Care Unit 4131 University Hospital Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark; and Renal and Vascular Research Section, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Health Sci...

' have recently been looking through questionnaires completed by fifth year medical students after they have completed 2 week attachments to general practices in the South West. They are usually resident with the doctor and-often for the first time in their life have the

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OBJECTIVES Lack of familiarity between teammates is linked to worsened safety in high risk settings. The emergency department (ED) is a high risk healthcare setting where unfamiliar teams are created by diversity in clinician shift schedules and flexibility in clinician movement across the department. We sought to characterise familiarity between clinician teammates in one urban teaching hospit...