Emergency medicine

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1. Royal College of Emergency Medicine: Safety Resource Centre

   • Emergency medicine
   • Patient safety strategy
   • (and 4 more)

     Tagged with:

     • Emergency medicine
     • Patient safety strategy
     • Patient safety incident
     • Patient harmed
     • Standards
     • Risk management

   By Patient Safety Learning, 12 November

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   • 12 November

2. Nuffield Trust: Should emergency departments move patients to other wards even when there's no bed space available? (14 October 2022)

   • Emergency medicine
   • Hospital ward
   • (and 3 more)

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     • Emergency medicine
     • Hospital ward
     • Lack of resources
     • Organisation / service factors
     • Resources / Organisational management

   By Patient Safety Learning, 9 November

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   • 9 November

3. The Health Foundation: Why have ambulance waiting times been getting worse? (4 November 2022)

   • Ambulance
   • Emergency medicine
   • (and 6 more)

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     • Ambulance
     • Emergency medicine
     • Accident and Emergency
     • Long waiting list
     • Lack of resources
     • Organisation / service factors
     • Data
     • Handover

   By Patient Safety Learning, 9 November

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   • 9 November

4. RCEM Acute Insight Series: Mental health emergency care (22 September 2022)

   • Emergency medicine
   • Mental health
   • (and 2 more)

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     • Emergency medicine
     • Mental health
     • Long waiting list
     • Recommendations

   By Patient Safety Learning, 22 September

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   • 22 September

5. Physical health in mental health: considerations for paramedics (2 January 2020)

   • Paramedic
   • Mental health
   • (and 3 more)

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     • Paramedic
     • Mental health
     • Social determinants of health
     • Ambulance
     • Patient

   By Patient-Safety-Learning, 29 August

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   • 29 August

6. NCEPOD report - Dysphagia in Parkinson’s Disease (12 August 2021)

   • Parkinsons disease
   • Medicine - Acute internal
   • (and 3 more)

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     • Parkinsons disease
     • Medicine - Acute internal
     • Clinical process
     • Documentation
     • UK

   By Patient-Safety-Learning, 8 August

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   • 8 August

7. Ambulance ramping is a signal the health system is floundering. Solutions need to extend beyond EDs (The Conversation, 21 July 2022)

   • Australia
   • Ambulance
   • (and 3 more)

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     • Australia
     • Ambulance
     • Lack of resources
     • Discharge
     • Pandemic

   By Patient-Safety-Learning, 8 August

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   • 8 August

8. Emergency care in hospitals is as good at the weekend as on weekdays (14 April 2022)

   • Emergency medicine
   • Organisation / service factors
   • (and 3 more)

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     • Emergency medicine
     • Organisation / service factors
     • Admission
     • Research
     • Patient death

   By Patient Safety Learning, 6 August

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   • 6 August

9. ITV News: Patients stuck on hospital trolleys for days as NHS struggles to cope (27 July 2022)

   • Ambulance
   • Emergency medicine
   • (and 4 more)

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     • Ambulance
     • Emergency medicine
     • Workforce management
     • Additional staff required
     • Additional equipment required
     • Long waiting list

   By Patient-Safety-Learning, 29 July

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   • 29 July

10. NHS ambulances aren’t responding to emergencies as fast as they want to – here’s why (Independent, 2 July 2022)

    • Long waiting list
    • Lack of resources
    • (and 6 more)

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      • Long waiting list
      • Lack of resources
      • Emergency medicine
      • Accident and Emergency
      • Ambulance
      • Staff support
      • Patient harmed
      • Patient suffering

    By Patient Safety Learning, 4 July

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    • 240 views
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    • 4 July

11. Northern Ireland Ambulance Service - Body worn cameras consultation (7 December 2021)

    • Paramedic
    • Ambulance
    • (and 4 more)

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      • Paramedic
      • Ambulance
      • Survey
      • Patient engagement
      • Northern Ireland
      • Staff safety

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 15 June

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    • 15 June

12. Tip of the iceberg: 12-hour stays in the emergency department (Royal College of Emergency Medicine, 14 June 2022)

    • Emergency medicine
    • Long waiting list
    • (and 5 more)

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      • Emergency medicine
      • Long waiting list
      • Lack of resources
      • Organisation / service factors
      • Accident and Emergency
      • Patient harmed
      • Patient suffering

    By Patient Safety Learning, 14 June

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    • 431 views
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    • 14 June

13. Interview: Krista Haugen - National Director, Patient Safety Global Medical Response (June 2022)

    • Emergency medicine
    • Just Culture
    • (and 5 more)

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      • Emergency medicine
      • Just Culture
      • Safety culture
      • Nurse
      • Risk management
      • High reliability organisations
      • USA

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 8 June

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    • 228 views
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    • 8 June

14. Staff perceptions of patient safety in the NHS ambulance services: an exploratory qualitative study (1 March 2022)

    • Ambulance
    • Research
    • (and 5 more)

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      • Ambulance
      • Research
      • Survey
      • Staff factors
      • Organisational culture
      • Communication
      • Qualitative

    By Patient Safety Learning, 20 May

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    • 312 views
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    • 20 May

15. Medication safety in the emergency department: A study of serious medication errors reported by 101 hospitals from 2011 to 2020 (17 March 2022)

    • Medication
    • Human error
    • (and 2 more)

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      • Medication
      • Human error
      • Emergency medicine
      • USA

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 29 April

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    • 29 April

16. The Guardian - ‘For staff, this is heartbreaking’: senior doctor’s view on crisis in urgent care (10 April 2022)

    • Long waiting list
    • Emergency medicine
    • (and 5 more)

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      • Long waiting list
      • Emergency medicine
      • Accident and Emergency
      • Doctor
      • Additional staff required
      • Lack of resources
      • Workforce management

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 13 April

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    • 13 April

17. Promoting hot debriefing in an emergency department (16 August 2020)

    • Staff safety
    • Staff support
    • (and 2 more)

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      • Staff safety
      • Staff support
      • Emergency medicine
      • Communication

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 28 March

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    • 28 March

18. TAKE STOCK – Hot debrief tool (29 October 2019)

    • Emergency medicine
    • Communication
    • (and 3 more)

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      • Emergency medicine
      • Communication
      • Staff support
      • Staff safety
      • Students

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 1 March

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    • 1 March

19. Yellow kits - an innovation to reduce the risk of falls in Accident and Emergency departments

    • Accident and Emergency
    • Older People (over 65)
    • (and 6 more)

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      • Accident and Emergency
      • Older People (over 65)
      • Falls
      • Innovation
      • Patient identification
      • Patient safety strategy
      • Staff engagement
      • Information sharing

    By Patient safety Hub, 28 February

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    • 28 February

20. Burnout in frontline ambulance staff (30 December 2021)

    • Fatigue / exhaustion
    • Mental health
    • (and 7 more)

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      • Fatigue / exhaustion
      • Mental health
      • Ambulance
      • Paramedic
      • Staff safety
      • Staff factors
      • Staff support
      • Research
      • Workforce management

    By Patient Safety Learning, 7 February

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    • 7 February

21. Translating tensions into safe practices through dynamic trade-offs: the secret second handover (Mark Sujan, March 2015)

    • Emergency medicine
    • Handover
    • (and 1 more)

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      • Emergency medicine
      • Handover
      • Resilience

    By Patient Safety Learning, 27 January

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    • 27 January

22. Recognising how big a problem we currently have in the NHS is the beginning of trying to solve it (14 January 2022)

    • Emergency medicine
    • Pandemic
    • (and 1 more)

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      • Emergency medicine
      • Pandemic
      • Virus

    By Patient Safety Learning, 21 January

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    • 21 January

23. Association between delays to patient admission from the emergency department and all-cause 30-day mortality (18 January 2022)

    • Admission
    • Research
    • (and 5 more)

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      • Admission
      • Research
      • Accident and Emergency
      • Emergency medicine
      • Patient death
      • Organisation / service factors
      • Lack of resources

    By Patient Safety Learning, 19 January

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    • 19 January

24. British Red Cross report - Nowhere else to turn: Exploring high intensity use of Accident and Emergency services (November 2021)

    • Accident and Emergency
    • Health inequalities
    • (and 4 more)

      Tagged with:

      • Accident and Emergency
      • Health inequalities
      • Health Disparities
      • Mental health
      • Community care
      • General Practice

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 22 November, 2021

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    • 813 views
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    • 22 November, 2021

25. Royal College of Emergency Medicine CARES: The next phase (November 2021)

    • Emergency medicine
    • Accident and Emergency
    • (and 4 more)

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      • Emergency medicine
      • Accident and Emergency
      • System safety
      • Hospital ward
      • Safe staffing
      • Pandemic

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 12 November, 2021

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    • 459 views
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    • 12 November, 2021