2018
DOI: 10.1002/jhrm.21346
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Hospitals should replace emergency codes with plain language

Abstract: The common and frequent use of emergency codes by hospitals to communicate during life-threatening emergencies routinely segregates hospital staff from patients, visitors, and first-responders during emergencies by providing each group with a different level of information regarding the threat. By relying on codes instead of plain language to communicate during an emergency, a hospital may introduce ambiguity into a potentially life-threatening situation. Consequently, this means that coded alerts may endanger… Show more

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“…Recently, the use of emergency codes has been believed to hinder patients and visitors in timely evacuations, thus placing them in danger. Hence, plain language is more commonly used in combination with codes (Dauksewicz, 2019;Prickett & Williams-Prickett, 2018;Wallace & Finley, 2015).…”
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“…Recently, the use of emergency codes has been believed to hinder patients and visitors in timely evacuations, thus placing them in danger. Hence, plain language is more commonly used in combination with codes (Dauksewicz, 2019;Prickett & Williams-Prickett, 2018;Wallace & Finley, 2015).…”
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“…The need to develop plain language communication protocols for healthcare services at the national level has already been set forth by scholars (Dauksewicz 2019). Researchers also launch monitoring platforms to understand the communicative patterns and language role in response to the humanitarian crisis in healthcare that pandemic caused (Betsch, 2020).…”
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confidence: 99%
“…There is no national standard in the United States (U.S.) for such warning systems in healthcare facilities [ 7 ]. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) emergency preparedness regulations include a requirement for the facility to be able to coordinate patient care “within the facility, across healthcare providers, and with state and local public health departments and emergency management agencies and systems” [ 8 ].…”
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“…In fact, the publicly available resources for hospitals from TJC include guidance on multiple warning systems [ 11 ]. As a result of the lack of specific requirements, healthcare facility leaders often independently choose an emergency alert system that they believe will allow them to best maintain a safe environment of care [ 7 ].…”
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confidence: 99%