Are patients discharged with care? A qualitative study of perceptions and experiences of patients, family members and care providers.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The goal of this study was to identify barriers and facilitators to the optimal management of critically ill children who present initially to community hospitals and how best to support the needs of front-line healthcare providers in these settings prior to transfer to the regional academic paediatric health...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Gilleland J,McGugan J,Brooks S,Dobbins M,Ploeg J

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:BACKGROUND Previous research has shown a correlation between physician job satisfaction and patient satisfaction with quality of care, but the connection between job satisfaction of other primary care team members and patient satisfaction is yet unclear. OBJECTIVE To evaluate whether there is an association between pa...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Szecsenyi J,Goetz K,Campbell S,Broge B,Reuschenbach B,Wensing M

更新日期：2011-06-01 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：BACKGROUND:Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) often produce skewed distributions of individual scores after a healthcare intervention. For health performance indicators derived from skewed distributions, funnel plots designed with symmetric control limits may increase the risk of false alarms about poor performa...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Neuburger J,Cromwell DA,Hutchings A,Black N,van der Meulen JH

更新日期：2011-12-01 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：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：OBJECTIVES:To determine whether sharing of routinely collected health service performance data could have predicted a critical safety failure at an Australian maternity service. DESIGN:Observational quantitative descriptive study. SETTING:A public hospital maternity service in Victoria, Australia. DATA SOURCES:A pub...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Nowotny BM,Davies-Tuck M,Scott B,Stewart M,Cox E,Cusack K,Fletcher M,Saar E,Farrell T,Anil S,McKinlay L,Wallace EM

更新日期：2020-01-08 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：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：OBJECTIVE:Paediatric cardiac surgery has a low error tolerance and demands high levels of cognitive and technical performance. Growing evidence suggests that further improvements in patient outcomes depend on system factors, in particular, effective team skills. The hypotheses that small intraoperative non-routine even...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Schraagen JM,Schouten T,Smit M,Haas F,van der Beek D,van de Ven J,Barach P

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

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：BACKGROUND:Educational interventions to improve teamwork in crisis situations have proliferated in recent years with substantial variation in teamwork measurement. This systematic review aimed to synthesise available tools and their measurement properties in order to identify the most robust tool for measuring the team...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Boet S,Etherington N,Larrigan S,Yin L,Khan H,Sullivan K,Jung JJ,Grantcharov TP

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the association of mortality by day of the week for emergency and elective patients. DESIGN:Retrospective observational study using the international dataset from the Global Comparators (GC) project consisting of hospital administrative data. SETTING:28 hospitals from England, Australia, USA and ...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Ruiz M,Bottle A,Aylin PP

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:Due to the multitude of questions in the Hospital-Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (H-CAHPS) survey, it may be difficult to decide where quality improvement efforts should be focused. Our organisation has supplemented the survey with a 'patient complaints' section. The s...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Kemp K,Warren S,Chan N,McCormack B,Santana M,Quan H

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The world is not flat. Hierarchy is a fact of life in society and in healthcare institutions. National, specialty-specific and institutional cultures may play an important role in shaping today's patient-safety climate. The influence of power distance on safety interventions is under-studied. Checklists may make power...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Raghunathan K

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Emergent evidence suggests that patients can identify and report safety issues while in hospital. However, little is known about the best method for collecting information from patients about safety concerns. This study presents an exploratory pilot of three mechanisms for collecting data on safety concern...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： O'Hara JK,Armitage G,Reynolds C,Coulson C,Thorp L,Din I,Watt I,Wright J

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Hospital care comprises nearly a third of US healthcare expenditures. Fifteen to 20 per cent of this spending is considered to be potentially preventable. Risk prediction models have suboptimal accuracy and typically exclude patient experience data. No studies have explored patient perceptions of the likeliho...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Carter J,Ward C,Wexler D,Donelan K

更新日期：2018-09-01 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：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：:OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effects of a clinical pharmacist service on health-related quality of life (HRQL) and prescribing of drugs. METHODS A randomised controlled study was performed in two internal medicine wards. The intervention consisted of medication reviews with feedback to the physicians, drug treatment disc...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Bladh L,Ottosson E,Karlsson J,Klintberg L,Wallerstedt SM

更新日期：2011-09-01 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：:'The Problem with…' series covers controversial topics related to efforts to improve healthcare quality, including widely recommended, but deceptively difficult strategies for improvement and pervasive problems that seem to resist solution. ...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： de Vos MS,Hamming JF,Marang-van de Mheen PJ

更新日期：2018-09-01 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：INTRODUCTION:Although registered nurses (RNs) are central in patient care, we have not found prior research that specifically addresses how RNs assess the safety of patient care at their workplace and how factors in RNs' work environment are related to their assessments. This study aims to address these issues. METHOD...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Smeds Alenius L,Tishelman C,Runesdotter S,Lindqvist R

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patient safety experts have postulated that increasing patient participation in communications during patient handovers will improve the quality of patient transitions, and that this may reduce hospital readmissions. Choosing strategies that enhance patient safety through improved handovers requires better u...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Flink M,Hesselink G,Pijnenborg L,Wollersheim H,Vernooij-Dassen M,Dudzik-Urbaniak E,Orrego C,Toccafondi G,Schoonhoven L,Gademan PJ,Johnson JK,Öhlén G,Hansagi H,Olsson M,Barach P,HANDOVER Research Collaborative.

更新日期：2012-12-01 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：OBJECTIVES:To sustainably reduce the rate of mislabelled laboratory specimens through implementation of a series of interventions as led and coordinated by a multidisciplinary performance improvement team. METHODS:The quality improvement project was performed at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, an academic ...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Seferian EG,Jamal S,Clark K,Cirricione M,Burnes-Bolton L,Amin M,Romanoff N,Klapper E

更新日期：2014-08-01 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：BACKGROUND:Experts in patient safety stress the importance of a shared culture of safety. Lack of consensus may be detrimental to patient safety. This study examines differences in patient safety culture perceptions among providers, management and staff in a large national survey of safety culture in ambulatory practic...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Hickner J,Smith SA,Yount N,Sorra J

更新日期：2016-08-01 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