Emergency medicine

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1. Psychologically informed policy and practice development (PIPP) project - Key recommendations for retention and workforce wellbeing in emergency care (January 2023)

   • Emergency medicine
   • Accident and Emergency
   • (and 5 more)

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     • Emergency medicine
     • Accident and Emergency
     • Recommendations
     • Psychological safety
     • Organisational culture
     • Fatigue / exhaustion
     • Staff safety

   By Patient-Safety-Learning, 1 February, 2023

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   • 1 February, 2023

2. The Guardian - Patients are waiting 40 hours in A&E. I hate that this is the best the NHS can offer (8 January 2023)

   • Accident and Emergency
   • Emergency medicine
   • (and 6 more)

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     • Accident and Emergency
     • Emergency medicine
     • Human factors
     • Risk assessment
     • Safe staffing
     • Workforce management
     • Ambulance
     • Resources / Organisational management

   By Patient-Safety-Learning, 10 January, 2023

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   • 10 January, 2023

3. Length-of-stay in the emergency department and in-hospital mortality: A systematic review and meta-analysis (21 December 2021)

   • Emergency medicine
   • Patient death
   • (and 2 more)

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     • Emergency medicine
     • Patient death
     • Accident and Emergency
     • Systematic review

   By Patient-Safety-Learning, 10 January, 2023

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   • 10 January, 2023

4. HIQA: Healthcare Overview Report 2022 (14 December 2022)

   • Emergency medicine
   • Ireland
   • (and 7 more)

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

   By Patient Safety Learning, 16 December, 2022

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   • 16 December, 2022

5. The Patient Experience Library: Patient experience in urgent and emergency care (August 2022)

   • Accident and Emergency
   • Emergency medicine
   • (and 3 more)

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     • Accident and Emergency
     • Emergency medicine
     • Ambulance
     • Patient
     • Research

   By Patient-Safety-Learning, 10 December, 2022

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   • 10 December, 2022

6. Royal College of Emergency Medicine: Safety Resource Centre

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

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

   By Patient Safety Learning, 12 November, 2022

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   • 12 November, 2022

7. 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, 2022

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   • 9 November, 2022

8. 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, 2022

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   • 9 November, 2022

9. 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, 2022

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   • 22 September, 2022

10. 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, 2022

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    • 8 August, 2022

11. 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, 2022

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    • 8 August, 2022

12. 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, 2022

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    • 6 August, 2022

13. 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, 2022

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    • 29 July, 2022

14. 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, 2022

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    • 4 July, 2022

15. 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, 2022

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    • 14 June, 2022

16. 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, 2022

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    • 8 June, 2022

17. 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, 2022

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    • 1,025 views
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    • 20 May, 2022

18. 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, 2022

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    • 29 April, 2022

19. 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, 2022

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    • 13 April, 2022

20. 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, 2022

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    • 28 March, 2022

21. 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, 2022

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    • 1 March, 2022

22. 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, 2022

    • 2 comments
    • 10,943 views
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    • 28 February, 2022

23. 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, 2022

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    • 2,063 views
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    • 7 February, 2022

24. 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, 2022

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    • 27 January, 2022

25. 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, 2022

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    • 961 views
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    • 21 January, 2022