{
  "abstract": "Patient safety huddles have been employed across healthcare settings to boost safety culture and improve patient outcomes. However, there is a dearth of literature pertaining to physicians’ levels of interest in participating in these huddles, as well as the impact of physician presence on patient care dynamics. Multidisciplinary huddles aimed at identifying and addressing patient safety issues related to the electronic health record (EHR), for example, were helpful for promoting discussion of EHR-related safety concerns.1 Furthermore, there is a robust literature demonstrating the patient safety benefits of perioperative time-outs in the surgical literature, as well as structured handoffs at the time of care transfer.2–5 Yet hospitalist physicians were not always routinely a key part of these huddles, even though representatives from the medical and surgical services were among the 40 roles that attended some huddles in these studies.1 4 There is similarly limited evidence of the effectiveness of safety huddles held for patients admitted to an inpatient general medicine unit. Furthermore, randomised controlled studies of safety huddles are rare. For these reasons, the research by Guo et al 6 in this edition of BMJ Quality and Safety constitutes an important advance based on its randomised design.",
  "authors": [
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Division of Hospital Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA",
        "Division of Infectious Diseases, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Allison Bond"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Division of Hospital Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Andrew D Auerbach"
    }
  ],
  "title": "Physician participation in pre-emptive patient safety huddles",
  "uid": "4ab5dcff-7d06-5b42-b1f9-b3ed11c42843"
}