Optimizing Pediatric Patient Safety in the Emergency Care Setting

The Most Vulnerable Population

“…The American College of Emergency Physicians and the American Academy of Pediatrics recognize the opportunity of today's technology to mitigate human factors inherent in triage by incorporating standardized pathways and electronic order sets from the point of triage: “ED throughput can be improved by implementing a 5-level triage system with nurse-initiated, evidence-based, standardized pathways and order sets at the point of initial triage 19 . (pp87–89) The use of clinical pathways has been shown to decrease variation, increase efficiency, and improve safety for pediatric patients.” 19 (pp90–92)…”