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Global perspectives on opioid use: shifting the conversation from deprescribing to quality use of medicines
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‘We listened and supported and depended on each other’: a qualitative study of how leadership influences implementation of QI interventions
Background There is growing recognition in the literature of the ‘Herculean’ efforts required to bring about change in healthcare processes and systems. Leadership is recognised as a critical lever ...
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Understanding risk and lessons for clinical risk communication about treatment preferences
This paper defines risk and its component elements and describes where clinical practice may be starting from in terms of what is reported in the literature about understanding risks and the ...
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Core competencies for patient safety research: a cornerstone for global capacity strengthening
5 Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 6 Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins ...
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Nationwide study on trends in unplanned hospital attendance and deaths during the 7 weeks after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in Denmark
Background The impact of a pandemic on unplanned hospital attendance has not been extensively examined. The aim of this study is to report the nationwide consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on ...
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Methodology and rationale for the measurement of harm with trigger tools
The growing recognition of harm as an unwelcome and frequently unrecognized byproduct of health care has initiated focused efforts to create highly reliable organizations for safe healthcare delivery.
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Lessons from the Australian Patient Safety Foundation: setting up a national patient safety surveillance system—is this the right model?
The evolution of the concepts and processes underpinning the Australian Patient Safety Foundation's systems over the last 15 years are traced. An ideal system should have the following attributes: an ...
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National quality campaigns: who benefits?
Background The use of national quality campaigns to foster evidence-based hospital practices is increasing. Because campaigns typically do not limit access to their resources, they may influence ...
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Patients’ problems with new medication for chronic conditions
Objectives: To assess patients’ adherence to new medication for a chronic condition (and whether non-adherence was intentional), patients’ problems with their medication, and their further information ...
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Ten challenges in improving quality in healthcare: lessons from the Health Foundation's programme evaluations and relevant literature
Social Science Applied to Healthcare Improvement Research Group, Department of Health Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK Correspondence to Professor Mary Dixon-Woods, ...
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Implementing electronic patient-reported outcomes measurements: challenges and success factors
Determining how to collect and use patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) continues to be an area of discussion, and in some cases frustration.1–5 Gaining a greater depth of knowledge concerning a ...
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Development of an audit instrument for nursing care plans in the patient record
Objectives—To develop, validate, and test the reliability of an audit instrument that measures the extent to which patient records describe important aspects of nursing care. Material—Twenty records ...