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| M A DeVitaSummaryAffiliation: University of Pittsburgh Country: USA Publications
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Use of medical emergency team responses to reduce hospital cardiopulmonary arrestsM A DeVita
200 Lothrop Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Qual Saf Health Care 13:251-4. 2004..Medical emergency team (MET) responses have been implemented to reduce inpatient mortality, but data on their efficacy are sparse and there have been no reports to date from US hospitals...
Improving medical emergency team (MET) performance using a novel curriculum and a computerized human patient simulatorM A DeVita
Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and UPMC Health System, Pittsburgh, PA 15212, USA
Qual Saf Health Care 14:326-31. 2005..We report findings of a crisis team training course that is focused on organization...
Use of medical emergency team (MET) responses to detect medical errorsR S Braithwaite
200 Lothrop Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Qual Saf Health Care 13:255-9. 2004..CONCLUSIONS: MET review may be used for surveillance to detect medical errors and to identify and modify processes of care that underlie those errors...
Donors after cardiac death: validation of identification criteria (DVIC) study for predictors of rapid deathM A DeVita
University of Pittsburgh, USA
Am J Transplant 8:432-41. 2008..Patients with no criteria might be excluded from consideration for DCD. Those with more than one criterion are reasonable candidates, while those with a single criterion should be considered if a 50% failure rate for DCD is acceptable...
Use of a standardized protocol to decrease medication errors and adverse events related to sliding scale insulinA C Donihi
University of Pittsburgh, 302 Scaife Hall, 200 Lothrop Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Qual Saf Health Care 15:89-91. 2006..Sliding scale insulin (SSI) is frequently used for inpatient management of hyperglycemia and is associated with a large number of medication errors and adverse events including hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia...
The death watch: certifying death using cardiac criteriaM A DeVita
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Prog Transplant 11:58-66. 2001..Diagnosis of death should be based on the context in which it occurs because the medical means available determine what is irreversible...
Honestly, do we need a policy on truth?M A DeVita
University of Pittsburgh
Kennedy Inst Ethics J 11:157-64. 2001..A policy that considers the practical issues and provides guidance may be useful...
Report of a National Conference on Donation after cardiac deathJ L Bernat
Am J Transplant 6:281-91. 2006....
