Assessing risks to paediatric patients: conversation analysis of situation awareness in huddle meetings in England

What is it about?

This paper explores the way clinical teams talk about patients at the regular safety meetings called huddles. In the research, we recorded the clinical meeting and then analysed how the teams discussed patients. Our findings showed different use of words to describe the clinical condition of patients, using terms such as ” no concerns”, “acute concerns”, “the one to watch”, and “watcher”. This allowed the identification of children who required intervention

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