Redesigning Rounds in the ICU: Standardizing Key Elements Improves Interdisciplinary Communication - Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety

Redesigning Rounds in the ICU: Standardizing Key Elements Improves Interdisciplinary Communication - Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety: Daily multidisciplinary rounds (MDR) in the ICU represent a mechanism by which health
care professionals from different disciplines and specialties can meet to synthesize
data, think collectively, and form complete patient care plans. It was hypothesized
that providing a standardized, structured approach to the daily rounds process would
improve communication and collaboration in seven distinct ICUs in a single academic
medical center.