A pilot study in a district general hospital in the UK has found that introducing a standard form to regularise inpatient management at weekends improved care and safety.
Documentation was better, with significantly more inpatients having a weekend plan in their notes and a recorded resuscitation decision, though recorded decisions on prophylaxis …
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