Postdischarge events remained widespread despite HPN bedside interventions offered by this pilot intervention. With refinement of HPN discharge processes, quality benchmarks are needed.

Of all families, approximately one-half were not informed about whiteboards and one-third did not use them. Reasons for nonuse were largely modifiable. Parents made aware of their whiteboard by their care teams demonstrated increased likelihood of active whiteboard use, highlighting the importance of education and suggesting a gap in harnessing the full potential of whiteboards as communication tools. Families' recommendations can help inform whiteboard practices to strengthen communication and care.

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Abstract. The specialty of emergency medicine jectives as well as suggestions for implementation of (EM) is becoming more and more involved in medical EM concepts into medical school curricula. Key school education. The previous article discusses the words: curriculum; undergraduate medical educaintegration of EM in medical school curricula. This tion; education; emergency medicine. ACADEMIC outline was developed by the SAEM Undergraduate EMERGENCY MEDICINE 1998; 51110-1113 Education Committee to offer specific goals and ob-FIRST YEAR Overall Goal. The first year of the emergency medicine (EM) curriculum should focus on first aid for common emergencies ( Table 1).Specmc Goals.

There are few evidence-based guidelines to inform optimal design of complex clinical trials, such as those assessing the safety and efficacy of intravenous drugs administered daily with infusion times over many hours per day and treatment durations that may span years. This study is a retrospective review of inpatient administration deviation reports for an investigational drug that is administered daily with infusion times of 8-24 hours, and variable treatment durations for each patient. We report study design modifications made in 2007-2008 aimed at minimizing deviations from an investigational drug infusion protocol approved by an institutional review board and the United States Food and Drug Administration. Modifications were specifically aimed at minimizing errors of infusion rate, incorrect dose, incorrect patient, or wrong drug administered. We found that the rate of these types of administration errors of the study drug was significantly decreased following adoption of the specific study design changes. This report provides guidance in the design of clinical trials testing the safety and efficacy of study drugs administered via intravenous infusion in an inpatient setting so as to minimize drug administration protocol deviations and optimize patient safety.