PTT AS COMMS TOOL IN HOSPITAL EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS
STUDY CONDUCTED FOR BETTER COVID-19 PROTECTIONS Osama Kentab, Khaled Soliman, Ahmad AAl Ibrahim, Abdulaziz Alresseeni, Khalid Aljohani and Muna Aljahany
A Saudi Arabian study found a quicker and safer method to inform all hospital staff during the pandemic.
14 Critical Comms - May/June 2022
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study was recently conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic to assess the effects of using a smartphone-based push-totalk (PTT) application on communication, safety and clinical performance of emergency department (ED) workers during the COVID-19 outbreak. Titled ‘A Push-to-Talk Application as an Inter-Professional Communication Tool in an Emergency Department During the COVID-19 Pandemic’, the resulting paper was published by Dove Press. The authors were: Osama
Kentab, Khaled Soliman, Ahmad AAl Ibrahim, Abdulaziz Alresseeni, Khalid Aljohani and Muna Aljahany. The first five worked at the emergency department of King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz University Hospital, Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The last author is at Clinical Sciences Department, College of Medicine, Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The paper was accepted in April 2022. Following is an approved summary of the paper approved by the publisher Dove Press.
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