What's in a name generator? Choosing the right name generators for social network surveys in healthcare quality and safety research.

abstract：RESEARCH QUESTIONS:The paper explores which type of quality aspects (structure, process, outcome) most strongly determines patients' overall assessment of healthcare, and whether there is a variation between different types of patient groups in this respect. METHODS:Secondary analyses were undertaken on survey data fr...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Rademakers J,Delnoij D,de Boer D

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The egregious failings in patient safety at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust between 2005 and 2009 identified by Sir Robert Francis QC in his public inquiry prompted him to recommend the introduction of a new criminal offence into English law in circumstances where a patient dies or is seriously harmed...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Yeung K,Horder J

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Free-text directions generated by prescribers in electronic prescriptions can be difficult for patients to understand due to their variability, complexity and ambiguity. Pharmacy staff are responsible for transcribing these directions so that patients can take their medication as prescribed. However, little ...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Zheng Y,Jiang Y,Dorsch MP,Ding Y,Vydiswaran VGV,Lester CA

更新日期：2020-05-25 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：:The opening keynote session of the 16th Annual National Patient Safety Foundation Patient Safety Congress, held 14-16 May 2014, featured a debate addressing the merits and challenges of accountability with respect to key issues in patient safety. The specific resolution debated was: Certain safety practices should be ...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： McTiernan P,Wachter RM,Meyer GS,Gandhi TK

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper adopts methods from the organisational team training literature to outline how health professions education can improve patient safety. We argue that health educators can improve training quality by intentionally encouraging errors during simulation-based team training. Preventable medical errors are inevit...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： King A,Holder MG Jr,Ahmed RA

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To provide national estimates of the number and clinical and economic burden of medication errors in the National Health Service (NHS) in England. METHODS:We used UK-based prevalence of medication errors (in prescribing, dispensing, administration and monitoring) in primary care, secondary care and care hom...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Elliott RA,Camacho E,Jankovic D,Sculpher MJ,Faria R

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the quality of guidelines, consensus statements and systematic reviews on flu and pneumococcal immunisations in HIV-infected children. METHOD:The authors screened PubMed and Embase databases until the year 2009 for guidelines, consensus statements and systematic reviews on flu and pneumococcal immu...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Giannattasio A,Lo Vecchio A,Albano F,Giacomet V,Barbarino A,Guarino A

更新日期：2011-05-01 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:To determine the quality and diagnostic accuracy of in-hospital adult clinical emergency calls. DESIGN:Prospective observational study. SETTING:Three National Health Service acute hospitals in England. PARTICIPANTS:Adult patients sustaining an in-hospital cardiac arrest (CA) or medical emergency (ME) which...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Akhtar N,Field RA,Greenwood L,Davies RP,Woolley S,Cooke MW,Perkins GD

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Monitoring blood pressure at 72 hours and 7-10 days post partum in women with hypertensive disorders is recommended to decrease morbidity. However, there are no recommendations as to how to achieve this. OBJECTIVE:To compare the effectiveness of text-based blood pressure monitoring to in-person visits for w...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Hirshberg A,Downes K,Srinivas S

更新日期：2018-11-01 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：BACKGROUND:Timely reporting and acknowledgement are crucial steps in critical laboratory results (CLR) management. The authors previously showed that an automated pathway incorporating short messaging system (SMS) texts, auto-escalation, and manual telephone back-up improved the rate and speed of physician acknowledgem...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Ti LK,Ang SB,Saw S,Sethi SK,Yip JW

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Insulin is a high-risk medicine which may cause significant patient harm or death when given incorrectly. A 10-fold error in administered insulin dose commonly occurs when the abbreviation 'u' is used for 'units' and subsequently misinterpreted as a 'zero.' METHOD:A multidisciplinary working party was conve...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Dooley MJ,Wiseman M,McRae A,Murray D,Van De Vreede M,Topliss D,Poole SG,Wyatt S,Newnham H

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Diagnostic error is commonly defined as a missed, delayed or wrong diagnosis and has been described as among the most important patient safety hazards. Diagnostic errors also account for the largest category of medical malpractice high severity claims and total payouts. Despite a large literature on the inci...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Gunderson CG,Bilan VP,Holleck JL,Nickerson P,Cherry BM,Chui P,Bastian LA,Grimshaw AA,Rodwin BA

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent research suggests that hospital rates of postoperative venous thromboembolism (VTE) are subject to surveillance bias: the more hospitals 'look for' VTE, the more VTE they find. However, little is known about what drives variation in hospital VTE imaging rates. We conducted an observational study to ex...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Chung JW,Ju MH,Kinnier CV,Haut ER,Baker DW,Bilimoria KY

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There have been repeated calls to better involve patients and the public and to place them at the centre of healthcare. Serious clinical and service failings in the UK and internationally increase the urgency and importance of addressing this problem. Despite this supportive policy context, progress to achie...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Ocloo J,Matthews R

更新日期：2016-08-01 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：:Progress in reducing diagnostic errors remains slow partly due to poorly defined methods to identify errors, high-risk situations, and adverse events. Electronic trigger (e-trigger) tools, which mine vast amounts of patient data to identify signals indicative of a likely error or adverse event, offer a promising metho...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Murphy DR,Meyer AN,Sittig DF,Meeks DW,Thomas EJ,Singh H

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patient safety (PS) receives limited attention in health professional curricula. We developed and pilot tested four Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) stations intended to reflect socio-cultural dimensions in the Canadian Patient Safety Institute's Safety Competency Framework. SETTING AND PART...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Ginsburg LR,Tregunno D,Norton PG,Smee S,de Vries I,Sebok SS,VanDenKerkhof EG,Luctkar-Flude M,Medves J

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess quality of care for children presenting with acute abdominal pain using validated indicators. DESIGN:Audit of care quality for acute abdominal pain according to 21 care quality indicators developed and validated in four stages. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS:Medical records of children aged 1-15 years r...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Zurynski Y,Churruca K,Arnolda G,Dalton S,Ting HP,Hibbert PD,Molloy C,Wiles LK,de Wet C,Braithwaite J

更新日期：2020-06-01 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：OBJECTIVE:We sought to identify the characteristics of patients who experience medical emergency team calls in the radiology department (MET-RD) and the relationship between these characteristics and patient outcomes. DESIGN/PARTICIPANTS:Retrospective review of 111 inpatient MET-RD calls (May 2008-April 2010). SETTIN...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Ott LK,Pinsky MR,Hoffman LA,Clarke SP,Clark S,Ren D,Hravnak M

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Burnout is widespread among healthcare providers and is associated with adverse safety behaviours, operational and clinical outcomes. Little is known with regard to the explanatory links between burnout and these adverse outcomes. OBJECTIVES:(1) Test the psychometric properties of a brief four-item burnout ...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Profit J,Sharek PJ,Amspoker AB,Kowalkowski MA,Nisbet CC,Thomas EJ,Chadwick WA,Sexton JB

更新日期：2014-10-01 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:Implement and demonstrate feasibility of in situ simulations to identify latent safety threats (LSTs) at a higher rate than lab-based training, and reinforce teamwork training in a paediatric emergency department (ED). METHODS:Multidisciplinary healthcare providers responded to critical simulated patients in...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Patterson MD,Geis GL,Falcone RA,LeMaster T,Wears RL

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Few studies have investigated whether clinicians can use checklists to verify their diagnostic decisions. Checklists may improve accuracy by prompting clinicians to reconsider or recollect information but might impair decision making by adding to clinicians' cognitive load. This study assessed whether checkl...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Sibbald M,de Bruin AB,Cavalcanti RB,van Merrienboer JJ

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：IMPORTANCE:There is a paucity of literature on the quality and effectiveness of institutional morbidity & mortality (M&M) rounds processes. OBJECTIVE:We sought to implement and evaluate the effectiveness of a hospital-wide structured M&M rounds model at improving the quality of M&M rounds across multiple specialties. ...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Kwok ESH,Calder LA,Barlow-Krelina E,Mackie C,Seely AJE,Cwinn AA,Worthington JR,Frank JR

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine whether the items on the Time Out and the Sign Out of the Surgical Safety Checklist are properly checked by operating room (OR) staff and to explore whether the number of checked items is influenced by the severity of the intervention and the use of the checklist as a memory tool during the Time...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Cullati S,Le Du S,Raë AC,Micallef M,Khabiri E,Ourahmoune A,Boireaux A,Licker M,Chopard P

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In 2005, The Joint Commission included medication reconciliation as a National Patient Safety Goal to reduce medication errors related to omissions, duplications and interactions. Hospitals continue to struggle to implement successful programmes that meet these objectives. METHODS:The authors used improveme...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： White CM,Schoettker PJ,Conway PH,Geiser M,Olivea J,Pruett R,Kotagal UR

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00