Systematic review of the application of the plan-do-study-act method to improve quality in healthcare.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Meaningful partnering with patients is advocated to enhance care delivery. Little is known about how this is operationalised at the point of care during hospital ward rounds, where decision-making concerning patient care frequently occurs. OBJECTIVE:Describe participation of patients, with differing prefere...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Redley B,McTier L,Botti M,Hutchinson A,Newnham H,Campbell D,Bucknall T

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI) are costly, common and often preventable by reducing unnecessary urinary catheter (UC) use. METHODS:To summarise interventions to reduce UC use and CAUTIs, we updated a prior systematic review (through October 2012), and a meta-analysis regarding interven...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Meddings J,Rogers MA,Krein SL,Fakih MG,Olmsted RN,Saint S

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE:Quality of care is considered to be of central importance in healthcare, disability services and rehabilitation. People experiencing disability often access a range of health and social care services; for some, these services are integral parts of daily life. Little research has explored perspe...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Fadyl JK,McPherson KM,Kayes NM

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Hospital-acquired pressure injuries are localised skin injuries that cause significant mortality and are costly. Nursing best practices prevent pressure injuries, including time-consuming, complex tasks that lack payment incentives. The Braden Scale is an evidence-based stratification tool nurses use daily to...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Padula WV,Pronovost PJ,Makic MBF,Wald HL,Moran D,Mishra MK,Meltzer DO

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

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：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：: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: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：OBJECTIVES:To demonstrate complementary results of regression and statistical process control (SPC) chart analyses for hospital-acquired pressure ulcers (HAPUs), and identify possible links between changes and opportunities for improvement between hospital microsystems and macrosystems. METHODS:Ordinary least squares ...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Padula WV,Mishra MK,Weaver CD,Yilmaz T,Splaine ME

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We sought to investigate the formal and informal ways preregistration students from medicine, nursing, pharmacy and the allied healthcare professions learn about patient safety. METHODS:We drew on Eraut's framework on formal and informal acquisition of professional knowledge to undertake a series of phased ...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Cresswell K,Howe A,Steven A,Smith P,Ashcroft D,Fairhurst K,Bradley F,Magnusson C,McArthur M,Pearson P,Sheikh A,Patient Safety Education Research Group.

更新日期：2013-10-01 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: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：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：BACKGROUND:Careful design of preprinted order sets is needed to prevent medical overuse. Recent work suggests that removing a single checkbox from an order set changes physicians' clinical decision-making. LOCAL PROBLEM:During a 2-month period, our coronary care unit (CCU) ordered almost eight times as many serum thyr...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Leis B,Frost A,Bryce R,Lyon AW,Coverett K

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:People who are sick are often the most vulnerable in society. They frequently rely on caring and competent healthcare professionals and should and do have expectations of a safe and caring environment. In a recent unexpected adventure through the healthcare system, the organisation, professionalism, caring and compass...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： McCullough M

更新日期：2011-11-01 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：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：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：: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：INTRODUCTION:Adverse events (AEs) affect 3-12% of hospitalised patients. These are estimates from a labour-intensive chart review process,which is not feasible outside research. Clinical deterioration on the wards triggers a rapid response teams (RRTs) consult and can be used to identify an AE prospectively. OBJECTIVE...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Amaral AC,McDonald A,Coburn NG,Xiong W,Shojania KG,Fowler RA,Chapman M,Adhikari NK

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Existing evidence indicates that reducing nurse staffing and/or skill mix adversely affects care quality. Nursing shortages may lead managers to dilute nursing team skill mix, substituting assistant personnel for registered nurses (RNs). However, no previous studies have described the relationship between nu...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Bridges J,Griffiths P,Oliver E,Pickering RM

更新日期：2019-09-01 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: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：: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:Interest in patient safety (PS) is growing exponentially, fuelled by epidemiological research unveiling the extent of unsafe care. However, there is little information about the frequency of harm in developing and transitional countries. To address this issue, the authors performed a study known as the Ibero...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Aranaz-Andrés JM,Aibar-Remón C,Limón-Ramírez R,Amarilla A,Restrepo FR,Urroz O,Sarabia O,García-Corcuera LV,Terol-García E,Agra-Varela Y,Gonseth-García J,Bates DW,Larizgoitia I,IBEAS team.

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Human auditing has been the gold standard for evaluating hand hygiene (HH) compliance but is subject to the Hawthorne effect (HE), the change in subjects' behaviour due to their awareness of being observed. For the first time, we used electronic HH monitoring to characterise the duration of the HE on HH even...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Vaisman A,Bannerman G,Matelski J,Tinckam K,Hota SS

更新日期：2020-11-01 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:Interest in the use of social network analysis (SNA) in healthcare research has increased, but there has been little methodological research on how to choose the name generators that are often used to collect primary data on the social connection between individuals for SNA. OBJECTIVE:We sought to determine...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Burt RS,Meltzer DO,Seid M,Borgert A,Chung JW,Colletti RB,Dellal G,Kahn SA,Kaplan HC,Peterson LE,Margolis P

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine how disciplinary tribunals assess different forms of misconduct in deciding whether to remove doctors from practice for professional misconduct. DESIGN AND SETTING:Multivariable regression analysis of 485 cases in which tribunals found doctors guilty of professional misconduct. The cases came from...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Elkin K,Spittal MJ,Elkin D,Studdert DM

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00