Optimizing Safety for Patients Transferred From Intensive Care Units to General Medical Wards
This Viewpoint discusses pitfalls of transitions of care from an intensive care unit to a general medical ward or step-down unit and introduces a checklist to support safe transfers.
Authors
- Barbara Haas (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-8735-5771)
- William K. Silverstein (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4133-7369)
- Donald A. Redelmeier (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4147-3544)
Institutions
- Sunnybrook Health Science Centre (CA)
- University of Toronto (CA)
- Sunnybrook Research Institute
Publication Details
- Journal
- JAMA Internal Medicine
- Published
- 2025-05-27
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jamainternmed.2025.1497
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Hospital Admissions and Outcomes
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.25