Health care institutions responding to quality and safety challenges during times of crisis,
such as emerging infectious diseases or natural disasters, can follow the I-READI …

Methods: A Choosing Wisely in COVID-19 list was developed in October 2020 by an
interdisciplinary High Value Care Council at New York City Health+ Hospitals, the largest …

Methods: A deliberate system-level approach was used to expand a preexisting airway
response service. Through a needs analysis (taking into account both existing resources …

Objective Describe the changes in patient population, bed occupancy, severity of illness and
ventilator requirements across a large health system in the greater New York City area …

Weaknesses resulting from a patchwork of patient safety processes developed by individual
health care organizations over the past quarter-century, exposed by the Covid-19 pandemic …

Objective It is unknown how hospital-and systems-level factors have impacted patient safety
in the intensive care unit (ICU) during the COVID-19 pandemic. We sought to understand …

Background: To meet coronavirus disease (COVID-19) demands in the spring of 2020, many
intensive care (IC) units (ICUs) required help of redeployed personnel working outside their …

Background Although COVID-19 was a novel disease that very little was known about at the
start of the pandemic, the complex and far-reaching public health system in the United …

Background This paper aimed to describe the airway practices of intensive care units (ICUs)
in Australia and New Zealand specific to patients presenting with COVID-19 and to inform …

In March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared Severe Acute Respiratory
Syndrome Coronavirus (COVID-19) a worldwide pandemic. An influx of patients with COVID …