Quality of in-hospital cardiac arrest calls: a prospective observational study.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Readmissions of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) have devastating effects on patient quality-of-life, disease progression and healthcare cost. Effective interventions to reduce COPD readmissions are needed. OBJECTIVES:Reduce 30-day all-cause readmissions by (1) creating a COPD care bundle that a...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Zafar MA,Panos RJ,Ko J,Otten LC,Gentene A,Guido M,Clark K,Lee C,Robertson J,Alessandrini EA

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate the impact of implementation of a dedicated intensivist-led medical emergency team (IL-MET) on mortality in patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU). METHODS:All adult ward admissions to the ICU between July 2002 and December 2009 were reviewed (n=1920) after excluding readmissions and ad...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Karvellas CJ,de Souza IA,Gibney RT,Bagshaw SM

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Under the 'Choosing Wisely' (CW) framework, professional organisations internationally have advocated limiting imaging for asymptomatic patients following curative cancer therapy, based on limited value and high cost. F18-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography-CT (PET/CT) was widely adopted lo...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Paltiel O,Raviv Sharabi G,Tzemach R,Rechavi T,Trachtenberg E,Goldschmidt N,Dann EJ,Bar-Shalom R

更新日期：2020-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prevention of healthcare-associated urinary tract infection (UTI) has been the focus of a national effort, yet appropriate indications for insertion and removal of urinary catheters (UC) among surgical patients remain poorly defined. METHODS:We developed and implemented a standardised approach to perioperat...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Sadeghi M,Leis JA,Laflamme C,Sparkes D,Ditrani W,Watamaniuk A,Taggar R,Jinnah F,Avaness M,Vearncombe M,Nathens AB

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a high-reliability organisation (HRO), safety and quality (SQ) is an organisational priority, and all workforce members are engaged, continuously learning and improving their work. To build organisational capacity for SQ work, we have developed a role-tailored capacity-building framework that we are currently emplo...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Aboumatar HJ,Weaver SJ,Rees D,Rosen MA,Sawyer MD,Pronovost PJ

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a chronic disease requiring patients to have frequent specialty healthcare visits to delay progression of lung disease, prevent and treat failure to thrive and initiate early interventions to prevent acute illness and complications. The CF Foundation recommends that patients have visits with th...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Berlinski A,Chambers MJ,Willis L,Homa K,Com G

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The American College of Surgeons' Trauma Quality Improvement Program (TQIP) provides trauma centres with performance reports on their processes and outcomes of care relative to their peers. This study explored how performance reports are used by trauma centre leaders to engage in performance improvement and ...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Gotlib Conn L,Hoeft C,Neal M,Nathens A

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the psychometric properties of the French-language version of the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (HSOPSC). METHODS:Data were obtained from a staff survey at a Swiss multisite hospital. We computed descriptive statistics and internal consistency coefficients, then conducted a confirmatory...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Perneger TV,Staines A,Kundig F

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:National Hospital Quality Measures (NHQM) should accurately reflect quality of care, as they increasingly impact reimbursement and reputation. However, similar to risk adjustment of outcomes measures, NHQM process measures pose unique methodological concerns, including lack of representativeness of the final...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Bruckel J,Liu X,Hohmann SF,Karson AS,Mort E,Shahian DM

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In Scotland, the uptake of clinic-based breast (72%) and cervical (77%) screening is higher than home-based colorectal screening (~60%). To inform new approaches to increase uptake of colorectal screening, we compared the perceptions of colorectal screening among women with different screening histories. ME...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Kotzur M,McCowan C,Macdonald S,Wyke S,Gatting L,Campbell C,Weller D,Crighton E,Steele RJC,Robb KA

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To explore whether differences between collaboratives with respect to type of topic, type of targets, measures (systems) are also reflected in the degree of effectiveness. STUDY SETTING:182 teams from long-term healthcare organisation developed improvement initiatives in seven quality-improvement collaborati...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Strating MM,Nieboer AP,Zuiderent-Jerak T,Bal RA

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Trauma resuscitation is a complex and time-sensitive endeavour with significant risk for error. These errors can manifest from sequential system, team and knowledge-based failures, defined as latent safety threats (LSTs). In situ simulation (ISS) provides a novel prospective approach to recreate clinical s...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Petrosoniak A,Fan M,Hicks CM,White K,McGowan M,Campbell D,Trbovich P

更新日期：2020-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Statistical hypothesis testing involving the comparison of three or more means and/or proportions is a frequent undertaking in medical statistics. For comparison of means, analysis of variance is a common choice and for comparison of proportions, χ(2) tests are common. However, both these approaches have important lim...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Mohammed MA,Holder R

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the effectiveness of a multifaceted intervention based on industrial process improvement to identify and sustainably correct deficiencies in thromboprophylaxis delivery. SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA:Deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism are major causes of morbidity and mortality in surgical patie...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Kreckler S,Morgan RD,Catchpole K,New S,Handa A,Collins G,McCulloch P

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Relatively little is known about how scorecards presenting performance indicators influence medication safety. We evaluated the effects of implementing a ward-level medication safety scorecard piloted in two English NHS hospitals and factors influencing these. METHODS:We used a mixed methods, controlled bef...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Ramsay AI,Turner S,Cavell G,Oborne CA,Thomas RE,Cookson G,Fulop NJ

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The safety-and-quality movement is now two decades old. Errors persist despite best efforts, indicating that there are entrenched overt and perhaps less explicit barriers limiting the success of improvement efforts. OBJECTIVES AND HYPOTHESES: To examine the perspectives of five groups of healthcare worker...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Travaglia JF,Nugus PI,Greenfield D,Westbrook JI,Braithwaite J

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current methods used to evaluate the effects of healthcare improvement efforts have limitations. Designs with strong causal inference-such as individual patient or cluster randomisation-can be inappropriate and infeasible to use in single-centre settings. Simpler designs-such as prepost studies-are unable to infer cau...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Walkey AJ,Bor J,Cordella NJ

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:In order to improve its quality-assurance programme based on ISO 9001, the Central Sterile Supply Department of a public university hospital has performed a prospective risk analysis using the Preliminary Risk Analysis method (PRA). The objectives were the achievement of a global risk mapping related to the ...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Niel-Lainé J,Martelli N,Bonan B,Talon D,Desroches A,Prognon P,Vincent F

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Valid, reliable critical appraisal tools advance quality improvement (QI) intervention impacts by helping stakeholders identify higher quality studies. QI approaches are diverse and differ from clinical interventions. Widely used critical appraisal instruments do not take unique QI features into account and e...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Hempel S,Shekelle PG,Liu JL,Sherwood Danz M,Foy R,Lim YW,Motala A,Rubenstein LV

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To compare the effectiveness of two types of online learning methodologies for improving the patient-safety behaviours mandated in the Joint Commission National Patient Safety Goals (NPSG). METHODS:This randomised controlled trial was conducted in 2010 at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's ...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Shaw TJ,Pernar LI,Peyre SE,Helfrick JF,Vogelgesang KR,Graydon-Baker E,Chretien Y,Brown EJ,Nicholson JC,Heit JJ,Co JP,Gandhi T

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of statistical process control (SPC) charts in healthcare is increasing. The primary purpose of SPC is to distinguish between common-cause variation which is attributable to the underlying process, and special-cause variation which is extrinsic to the underlying process. This is important because improvement u...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Mohammed MA,Panesar JS,Laney DB,Wilson R

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To empirically assess the quality of hospital care in China and trends over a 5-year period during which the government significantly increased its investment in healthcare. DESIGN:Retrospective, observational study comparing hospital quality between two periods: October 2012-March 2013 and October 2017-Marc...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Jian W,Figueroa J,Woskie L,Yao X,Zhou Y,Li Z,Li C,Yao L,Yip WC

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the association of consultants' experience with mortality by day of the week when elective surgery was performed. DESIGN:Retrospective observational study using English hospital administrative data. SETTING:All acute and specialist English National Health Service (NHS) hospitals carrying out elec...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Ruiz M,Bottle A,Aylin PP

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Neonates are at high risk for significant morbidity and mortality from medication prescribing errors. Despite general awareness of these risks, mistakes continue to happen. Alerts in computerised physician order entry intended to help prescribers avoid errors have not been effective enough. This improvement p...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Sullivan KM,Suh S,Monk H,Chuo J

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Individual effort and practice systems contribute to quality performance, but the nature of their contributions remains unclear. METHODS:This study assessed the roles of individual attributes and behaviours versus practice attributes in quality performance by assessing general internists' perceptions of f...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Pham HH,Bernabeo EC,Chesluk BJ,Holmboe ES

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In this study, we aim to develop a set of quality indicators for optimal perioperative diabetes care throughout the hospital care pathway and to gain insight into the feasibility of the indicator set in daily clinical practice by assessing the clinimetric properties of the indicators in a practice test. MET...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Hommel I,van Gurp PJ,Tack CJ,Wollersheim H,Hulscher ME

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the association between daily levels of registered nurse (RN) and nursing assistant staffing and hospital mortality. DESIGN:This is a retrospective longitudinal observational study using routinely collected data. We used multilevel/hierarchical mixed-effects regression models to explore the asso...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Griffiths P,Maruotti A,Recio Saucedo A,Redfern OC,Ball JE,Briggs J,Dall'Ora C,Schmidt PE,Smith GB,Missed Care Study Group.

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Administrative data systems are used to identify hospital-based patient safety events; few studies evaluate their accuracy. We assessed the accuracy of a new set of patient safety indicators (PSIs; designed to identify in hospital complications). STUDY DESIGN:Prospectively defined analysis of registry data (...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： McIsaac DI,Hamilton GM,Abdulla K,Lavallée LT,Moloo H,Pysyk C,Tufts J,Ghali WA,Forster AJ

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Interest in human factors has increased across healthcare communities and institutions as the value of human centred design in healthcare becomes increasingly clear. However, as human factors is becoming more prominent, there is growing evidence of confusion about human factors science, both anecdotally and ...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Russ AL,Fairbanks RJ,Karsh BT,Militello LG,Saleem JJ,Wears RL

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Good outcomes for in-hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA) depend on a skilled resuscitation team, prompt initiation of high-quality cardiopulmonary resuscitation and defibrillation, and organisational structures to support IHCA response. We examined the role of nurses in resuscitation, contrasting higher versus lo...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Guetterman TC,Kellenberg JE,Krein SL,Harrod M,Lehrich JL,Iwashyna TJ,Kronick SL,Girotra S,Chan PS,Nallamothu BK

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00