Emergency medicine

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1. Waiting times are not all that A&E patients care about (HSJ, February 2024)

   • Accident and Emergency
   • Emergency medicine
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     • Accident and Emergency
     • Emergency medicine
     • Patient engagement

   By Patient_Safety_Learning, 28 March, 2024

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   • 28 March, 2024

2. NHS Providers: A vision for the NHS ambulance sector in co-designing urgent and emergency care provision (15 March 2024)

   • Ambulance
   • Emergency medicine
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     • Ambulance
     • Emergency medicine
     • Collaboration

   By Patient Safety Learning, 22 March, 2024

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   • 22 March, 2024

3. Enhancing quality and safety in critical care—Challenges and strategies for central venous catheters (4 March 2024)

   • Emergency medicine
   • Healthcare associated infection
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     • Emergency medicine
     • Healthcare associated infection
     • Reporting
     • Quality improvement
     • USA

   By Patient-Safety-Learning, 9 March, 2024

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   • 9 March, 2024

4. Patient reported outcomes of emergency general surgery procedures (10 February 2024)

   • Emergency medicine
   • Patient
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     • Emergency medicine
     • Patient
     • Patient engagement
     • Communication
     • Decision making
     • Consent

   By Patient-Safety-Learning, 13 February, 2024

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   • 13 February, 2024

5. Reduction in average length of stay in Emergency Department of a low-income country's cancer hospital (10 November 2023)

   • Emergency medicine
   • Discharge
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     • Emergency medicine
     • Discharge
     • Cancer
     • Patient
     • Research
     • Increased length of stay
     • Low income countries

   By Patient Safety Learning, 9 February, 2024

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   • 9 February, 2024

6. Sky-high safety? A qualitative study of physicians’ experiences of patient safety in Norwegian helicopter emergency services (January 2024)

   • Emergency medicine
   • System safety
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     • Emergency medicine
     • System safety
     • Reporting
     • Risk management
     • Ambulance
     • Aviation

   By Patient-Safety-Learning, 10 January, 2024

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   • 10 January, 2024

7. Access to urgent and emergency care: House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (Seventy-Third Report of Session 2022–23)

   • Emergency medicine

   By Patient_Safety_Learning, 16 December, 2023

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   • 16 December, 2023

8. Nuffield Trust: Chain reaction? Understanding the causes of backlogs through urgent and emergency care (19 October 2023)

   • Emergency medicine
   • Integrated Care System (ICS)
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     • Emergency medicine
     • Integrated Care System (ICS)
     • Lack of resources
     • Discharge
     • Care navigation

   By Patient Safety Learning, 3 November, 2023

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   • 3 November, 2023

9. NHS England Safer Tracheostomy Care National Patient Safety Improvement Program (NatPatSIP) evaluation (NIHR, April 2023)

   • Emergency medicine
   • ICU/ ITU/ HDU
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     • Emergency medicine
     • ICU/ ITU/ HDU
     • Audit
     • Evaluation
     • Quality improvement

   By Patient-Safety-Learning, 25 October, 2023

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   • 25 October, 2023

10. No waiting lying in a corridor: a quality improvement initiative in an emergency department (28 August 2023)

    • Emergency medicine
    • Accident and Emergency
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      • Emergency medicine
      • Accident and Emergency
      • Quality improvement
      • Patient
      • Process redesign
      • Switzerland
      • Implementation

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 20 September, 2023

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    • 20 September, 2023

11. Developing and evaluating the success of a family activated medical emergency team: a quality improvement report (December 2014)

    • Emergency medicine
    • Deterioration
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      • Emergency medicine
      • Deterioration
      • Patient / family involvement
      • Research
      • Quality improvement

    By Patient Safety Learning, 17 September, 2023

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    • 17 September, 2023

12. Patients' experiences and reasons for unplanned return visits to the emergency department: A qualitative study (12 March 2023)

    • Accident and Emergency
    • Patient
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      • Accident and Emergency
      • Patient
      • Research
      • Readmission
      • Qualitative
      • Patient engagement
      • Diagnosis

    By Patient Safety Learning, 22 August, 2023

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    • 22 August, 2023

13. Effect of removing the 4-hour access standard in the ED: a retrospective observational study (Emergency Medicine Journal, June 2023)

    • Paramedic
    • Accident and Emergency
    • (and 2 more)

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      • Paramedic
      • Accident and Emergency
      • Long waiting list
      • Standards

    By Patient_Safety_Learning, 2 August, 2023

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    • 2 August, 2023

14. Reversing the urgent and emergency care spiral of decline (3 July 2023

    • Emergency medicine
    • ICU/ ITU/ HDU
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      • Emergency medicine
      • ICU/ ITU/ HDU
      • Patient harmed
      • Organisation / service factors
      • Workforce management
      • Long waiting list
      • Lack of resources

    By Patient Safety Learning, 17 July, 2023

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    • 17 July, 2023

15. Progressing patient safety in the Emergency Medical Services (BMJ, 7 April 2023)

    • Emergency medicine
    • Quality improvement
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      • Emergency medicine
      • Quality improvement
      • Monitoring
      • Patient safety strategy

    By Patient Safety Learning, 30 June, 2023

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    • 30 June, 2023

16. NAO Value for Money report - Access to unplanned or urgent care (21 June 2023)

    • Urgent care centre
    • Accident and Emergency
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      • Urgent care centre
      • Accident and Emergency
      • Emergency medicine
      • General Practice
      • Audit
      • England

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 28 June, 2023

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    • 28 June, 2023

17. Issues with access to public defibrillators (HSIB, 20 June 2023)

    • Emergency medicine
    • Public health
    • (and 3 more)

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      • Emergency medicine
      • Public health
      • Accessibility
      • Investigation
      • Heart disease

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 26 June, 2023

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    • 26 June, 2023

18. Diagnosing aortic dissection in the emergency setting: A masterclass

    • Heart disease
    • Emergency medicine
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      • Heart disease
      • Emergency medicine
      • Diagnosis

    By Patient_Safety_Learning, 19 May, 2023

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    • 19 May, 2023

19. National ambulance volunteering strategy (Association of Ambulance Chief Executives, January 2023)

    • Ambulance
    • Volunteer
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      • Ambulance
      • Volunteer
      • Emergency medicine
      • Recruitment
      • Workforce management

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 17 May, 2023

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    • 17 May, 2023

20. Bed block and emergency department crowding (26 September 2022)

    • Emergency medicine
    • Long waiting list
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      • Emergency medicine
      • Long waiting list
      • Lack of resources
      • Data
      • Ambulance
      • Handover
      • Technology
      • Discharge

    By Patient Safety Learning, 10 May, 2023

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    • 10 May, 2023

21. An evening in accident and emergency (a blog by Richard Smith)

    • Accident and Emergency
    • Age
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      • Accident and Emergency
      • Age
      • Care home

    By Patient_Safety_Learning, 26 April, 2023

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    • 26 April, 2023

22. Undercover ambulance: NHS chaos (Dispatches, 9 March 2023)

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

    By Patient Safety Learning, 10 March, 2023

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    • 10 March, 2023

23. RCEM explains: Long waits and excess deaths (24 February 2023)

    • Emergency medicine
    • Accident and Emergency
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      • Emergency medicine
      • Accident and Emergency
      • Patient death
      • Long waiting list
      • Ambulance
      • UK
      • Data

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 2 March, 2023

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    • 2 March, 2023

24. Newsnight: NE Ambulance Failings: A Special Report (1 February 2023)

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

    By Patient Safety Learning, 18 February, 2023

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    • 18 February, 2023

25. Mapping processes in the emergency department using the functional resonance analysis method (15 February 2023)

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

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      • Emergency medicine
      • Accident and Emergency
      • Quality improvement
      • Process redesign
      • Risk management
      • System safety

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 16 February, 2023

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    • 16 February, 2023