Daily huddles in the OR can also improve communication and collaboration between physicians and staff, leading to greater employee satisfaction, improved safety and a better patient experience ...

In Illinois, daily 15-minute safety huddles helped Advocate Health Care increase safety event reporting by 40 percent at its 12 acute-care hospitals and cut the number of safety events overall ...

Last spring, the Illinois-based Advocate Health Care abolished meetings between 7 and 9 a.m., replacing them with safety huddles, according to Rishi Sikka, M.D., Kate Kovich, M.S. and Lee Sacks, M ...

At Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare, ensuring the alignment of all these things to provide extraordinary care requires a constant regimented focus across its 23 hospitals, 170 clinics ...

Daily huddles are part of the following six factors IHI researchers identified as being important for sustaining attention and, therefore, quality control: 1. Standardization.