A search of Joanna Briggs, CINAHL and PubMed for the concept of Noninvasive positive pressure ventilation and guidelines produced the following articles.

Yifan Xue MBBS MPH, Endotracheal tube: Extubation General Medicine, Infection Control, Surgical Services 18/04/2011

Sinuff T ; Keenan SP Clinical practice guideline for the use of noninvasive positive pressure ventilation in COPD patients with acute respiratory failure. Journal of Critical Care, 2004 Jun; 19(2): 82-91

Sinuff T ; Cook DJ ; Randall J ; Allen CJ. Evaluation of a practice guideline for noninvasive positive-pressure ventilation for acute respiratory failure. CHEST, 2003 Jun; 123(6): 2062-73

Keenan, Sean, Clinical practice guidelines for the use of noninvasive positive-pressure ventilation and noninvasive continuous positive airway pressure in the acute care setting. Canadian Medical Association. Journal; CMAJ 2011 vol:183 iss:3 pg:E195 -E214

Bersten, Andrew, Best practices for noninvasive ventilation. Canadian Medical Association. Journal; CMAJ 2011 vol:183 iss:3 pg:293 -294

Hess, Dean, How to initiate a noninvasive ventilation program: bringing the evidence to the bedside. Respiratory care 2009 vol:54 iss:2 pg:232 -43

Reviewed JKN 4/14

Below are links to 2 PubMed searches on the concepts of time outs and invasive procedures. There may be some overlap in results, however together they cover a range of studies, guidelines and reports on time outs.

Click the links to run the searches:

“medical errors/prevention and control”[mesh] AND (“time out” OR “time outs”)

protocol wrong site procedure prevention

Click here to run a PubMed search on patient room design.

Search of CINAHL and PubMed on the concepts of holoperidol administration and dementia produced the following studies and reviews.

Mac Sweeney, R A national survey of the management of delirium in UK intensive care units. QJM 2010 vol:103 iss:4 pg:243 -251

Girard, Timothy Feasibility, efficacy, and safety of antipsychotics for intensive care unit delirium: the MIND randomized, placebo-controlled trial. Critical care medicine 2010 vol:38 iss:2 pg:428 -437

Balas, Michele, Free your MIND and the rest will follow: decoding delirium in the intensive care unit.
Critical care medicine 2010 vol:38 iss:2 pg:697 -698

Joffe, Aaron Why all the confusion about confusion? Critical care medicine 2010 vol:38 iss:2 pg:695 -696

van den Boogaard, Mark Implementation of a delirium assessment tool in the ICU can influence haloperidol use.
Critical care 2009 vol:13 iss:4 pg:R131 -R131

Page, Valerie, Tackling agitated delirium–the tip of the iceberg. Critical care 2009 vol:13 iss:3 pg:158 -158

Reade, Michael, Dexmedetomidine vs. haloperidol in delirious, agitated, intubated patients: a randomised open-label trial. Critical care 2009 vol:13 iss:3 pg:R75 -R75

Campbell, Noll Pharmacological management of delirium in hospitalized adults–a systematic evidence review.
Journal of general internal medicine 2009 vol:24 iss:7 pg:848 -853

Caplan, Jason, Haloperidol and delirium: management or treatment? Critical care medicine 2009 vol:37 iss:1 pg:354 -355

Gagnon, Pierre Treatment of delirium in supportive and palliative care. Current opinion in supportive and palliative care 2008 vol:2 iss:1 pg:60 -66

Intra-hospital transport: clinician information. In: JBI+Connect
Includes some useful references discussing factors associated with risk and safety.

PubMed
(“Patient Transfer”[MAJR]) AND shift AND (risk OR error* OR incident* OR safety)

Pezzolesi (2010) looks to be the most relevant. It discusses percentage of incidents that occurred during shift change.

CINAHL
(MH “Transfer, Intrahospital”) AND shift AND (risk OR incident* OR error* OR safety)

DId not see any studies specifically examining shift change and transport problems, but there are several articles discussing patient safety in the transport process. Those articles may reference other evidence.