id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-023833-xpfibjh2 Kilickaya, O. Structured Approach to Early Recognition and Treatment of Acute Critical Illness 2014 .txt text/plain 3386 164 36 Embracing a safety culture, limiting the number of steps ('less is more'), enhancing and prompting clear prioritized information, patient-and familycentered care delivery (integration of values, beliefs and advanced directives), improved communication and coordination (hand-offs, physician extenders) are all needed for safe and efficient critical care delivery. The advances in information technology, medical informatics and human factors engineering, have provided a tremendous opportunity for the development of novel and user-friendly checklists and decision support tools that can be widely applied in a complex and busy acute care settings [9] . To be successful, these applications need to reduce information overload and the potential for error, facilitate adherence to practice guidelines and enable clear communication and collaborative decision Fig. 3 Outline of the structured approach to early recognition and treatment of acute illness. A structured, reliable and error-free approach to the management of acutely ill or injured patients during the early, most vulnerable period is facilitated by point-of-care checklists and algorithms containing brief prioritized information. ./cache/cord-023833-xpfibjh2.txt ./txt/cord-023833-xpfibjh2.txt