Why colorectal screening fails to achieve the uptake rates of breast and cervical cancer screening: a comparative qualitative study.

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：: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：: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 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：BACKGROUND:Root cause analyses of surgical complications are of high importance to ensure surgical quality, but specific details on technical causes often remain unclear. Identifying subclinical intraoperative incidents attributable to technical errors is essential for developing rescue mechanisms to prevent adverse ou...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Bonrath EM,Gordon LE,Grantcharov TP

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Patient safety studies have identified older adults as a high-risk group for adverse events (AEs). As frequent users of the emergency department (ED), they are vulnerable to the negative consequences of ED crowding. The study objective was to determine whether a prolonged ED stay is associated with an increas...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Ackroyd-Stolarz S,Read Guernsey J,Mackinnon NJ,Kovacs G

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Non-drug technologies offer many benefits, but have been associated with adverse events, prompting calls for improved postmarket surveillance. There is little empirical research to guide the development of such a system. The purpose of this study was to identify optimal postmarket surveillance strategies for...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Gagliardi AR,Umoquit M,Lehoux P,Ross S,Ducey A,Urbach DR

更新日期：2013-03-01 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：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: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：BACKGROUND:Healthcare systems worldwide are concerned with strengthening board-level governance of quality. We applied Lozeau, Langley and Denis' typology (transformation, customisation, loose coupling and corruption) to describe and explain the organisational response to an improvement intervention in six hospital boa...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Jones L,Pomeroy L,Robert G,Burnett S,Anderson JE,Morris S,Capelas Barbosa E,Fulop NJ

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patient and public involvement (PPI) is often an essential requirement for research funding. Distinctions can be drawn between clinical research, which generally focuses on patients, and implementation research, which generally focuses on health professional behaviour. There is uncertainty about the role of ...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Gray-Burrows KA,Willis TA,Foy R,Rathfelder M,Bland P,Chin A,Hodgson S,Ibegbuna G,Prestwich G,Samuel K,Wood L,Yaqoob F,McEachan RRC

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe the development of evidence-based electronic prescribing (e-prescribing) triggers and treatment algorithms for potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs) for older adults. DESIGN:Literature review, expert panel and focus group. SETTING:Primary care with access to e-prescribing systems. PARTIC...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Hume AL,Quilliam BJ,Goldman R,Eaton C,Lapane KL

更新日期：2011-10-01 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: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：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：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: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：BACKGROUND:Learning is in delicate balance with safety, as faculty supervisors try to foster trainee development while safeguarding patients. This balance is particularly challenging if trainees are allowed to experience the educational benefits of failure, acknowledged as a critical resource for developing competence ...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Klasen JM,Driessen E,Teunissen PW,Lingard LA

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This article is an exploration of views and experiences of Patient Safety Walkrounds, a widely recommended strategy for identifying patient safety problems and improving safety culture. DESIGN AND SETTING:Qualitative analysis of semistructured, in-depth interviews with 11 senior leaders and 33 front-line sta...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Rotteau L,Shojania KG,Webster F

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Advocates for quality and safety have called for healthcare that is patient-centred and decision-making that involves patients. OBJECTIVE:The aim of the paper is to explore the barriers and facilitators to patient-centred care in the hospital discharge process. METHODS:A qualitative study using purposive s...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

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

更新日期：2012-12-01 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：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：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：: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：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：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: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

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:Transfers of care have become increasingly frequent and complex with shorter inpatient stays and changes in work hour regulations. Potential hazards exist with transfers. There are few reports of institution-wide efforts to improve handoffs. METHODS:An institution-wide physician handoff task force was devel...

journal_title：BMJ quality & safety

authors： Horwitz LI,Schuster KM,Thung SF,Hersh DC,Fisher RL,Shah N,Cushing W,Nunes J,Silverman DG,Jenq GY

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00