• J Nurses Staff Dev · Jan 2011

    Nursing morbidity and mortality conferences: a tool for enhancing quality patient care.

    • Carole Guger, Suellen Daum, Lauren Vacek, Joan Bryar Angeletti, Jamie O'Malley, Krista Curell, and Janice Phillips.
    • University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Carole.guger@uchospitals.edu
    • J Nurses Staff Dev. 2011 Jan 1; 27 (1): 35-8.

    AbstractMorbidity and mortality conferences have been used to educate healthcare providers, to critique staff performance, and to improve patient outcomes since the early 1900s. Historically well documented in physician-focused journals, the use of morbidity and mortality conferences is less predominant in the nursing literature. This article highlights one hospital's experience with planning, implementing, and evaluating a nursing morbidity and mortality conference and identifies implications for use in professional nursing development.

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