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Content ArticleThe Operating Room Black Box (OR Black Box) is a system that collects, stores and analyses a large amount of data from the operating room beyond just surgical video, such as video and audio of the operating room and patient physiology data. In this episode of the Behind the Knife podcast, Dr. Teodor Grantcharov, one of the creators of the OR Black Box, talks about how the technology can be used to enhance surgical training. Using the system for feedback through self-directed review, coaching and integrated AI analysis has changed the way we can learn and teach in surgery, and may have implications for the future of evaluation and assessing credentials.
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Content ArticleThe Hand Hygiene Acceleration Framework Tool (HHAFT) tracks the process that a government has undergone to develop and implement a plan of action for hand hygiene improvement, and assesses the quality of that plan. It helps identify barriers, opportunities and priority actions for accelerating progress towards hand hygiene and drive investment to these plans. This webpage includes a dashboard that captures data from different countries. Use of this common framework allows for cross-country learning and exchange, and helps direct and coordinate global action.
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Content ArticleThis report by Press Ganey outlines the key trends shaping safety culture in 2023 and makes recommendations for senior healthcare leaders to create and sustain safety culture across their organisations. Based on survey data from 814,000 US healthcare professionals, it highlights that in 2022 there was an upward trend in the perception of safety culture among clinical and nonclinical staff, but perception continues to trend downwards among senior leadership and doctors.
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Analysis of the nature and contributory factors of medication safety incidents following hospital discharge using National Reporting and Learning System (NRLS) data from England and Wales: a multi-method study (16 March 2023)
Patient-Safety-Learning posted an article in Medication including labelling
Improving medication safety during transitions of care is an international healthcare priority. While existing research reveals that medication-related incidents and associated harms may be common following hospital discharge, there is limited information about their nature and contributory factors at a national level which is crucial to inform improvement strategy. This study in the journal Therapeutic Advances in Drug Safety aimed to characterise the nature and contributory factors of medication-related incidents during transitions of care from secondary to primary care. The authors found several themes for future research that could support the development of interventions, including: commonly observed medication classes older adults increase patient engagements improve shared care agreements for medication monitoring post hospital discharge.- Posted
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Content ArticleOn 1 July 2022, Integrated care systems (ICSs) were placed on a statutory footing. ICSs are partnerships of organisations that come together to plan and deliver joined up health and care services, and to improve the lives of people who live and work in their area. Following their introduction, on the 18 November 2022, the Government announced that it would commission an independent review into the oversight of ICSs, considering how to best enable them to succeed, balancing greater autonomy and robust accountability, to be led by former Secretary of State for Health, the Rt Hon Patricia Hewitt. This report sets out the findings of this review.
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Content ArticleThis webinar hosted by the Patients Association looked at the benefits to patients of accessing their GP health records online, and answered questions from patients about how to access this information.
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WHO: Post COVID-19 condition (Long Covid)
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Factsheet on Long Covid from the World Health Organization.- Posted
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NHS Knowledge and Library Hub
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The NHS Knowledge and Library Hub connects NHS staff and learners to high quality knowledge and evidence resources in one place, using a single search. includes all journal articles, e-books, guidelines and evidence summary tools provided nationally and by your local NHS library team provides seamless access to full text, as an immediate download or on request from an NHS library avoids the less-reliable sources you might find in a general web search. Full access is free to all NHS staff and learners using your NHS OpenAthens account.- Posted
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Medicine and the McNamara fallacy (2017)
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Research, data and insight
The ‘McNamara fallacy’ (also known as quantitative fallacy) is named after the US Secretary of Defense during the Vietnam War. The fallacy consists of over-reliance on metrics, and may be summarised as: ‘if it cannot be measured, it is not important’. This paper describes the McNamara fallacy as it applies to medicine and healthcare, taking as examples hospital mortality data, NHS targets and quality assurance. -
Content ArticleThis article by Till Bruckner of Transparimed outlines how a new UK law will affect how clinical trial results are reported. The UK Government will introduce a legal requirement to make the results of all clinical trials public within 12 months of trial completion. Any company or university breaking the law will be refused permission to start new trials.
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Content ArticleIn this audio recording from the 2023 Chief Coroner's Conference at Central Hall Westminster, we hear Dr Georgia Richards present on the work of the Preventable Deaths Tracker. Dr Richards explains why this work was so necessary, how it can be used to reduce future avoidable deaths and why we need to ensure that the learning and data shared in coroner reports has impact on the ground.
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Content ArticleThe Operating Room Black Box, a system of sensors and software, is being used in operating rooms in 24 hospitals in the US, Canada and Western Europe. The device captures video, audio, patient vital signs and data from surgical devices in an effort to improve patient safety. This article in the Wall Street Journal looks at how Black Box technology at Duke University Hospital has identified several areas for improvement, including that the hospital needed a better system for sending and tracking specimens. The article also highlights some concerns raised by healthcare professionals about the use of Black Boxes, including fear that data collected might be used to punish staff, or that it may be used as evidence in medicolegal cases outside of hospitals' control.
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Content ArticleGPs in the UK are under extreme strain and public satisfaction with general practice has plummeted. Pressures on general practice are not unique to the UK and GPs around the world are contending with the impact of the pandemic on their patients and working lives. The 2022 Commonwealth Fund survey compares perspectives from GPs across 10 high‑income countries. The survey asked GPs’ views about their working lives and wellbeing, quality of care and how services are delivered. The Health Foundation analysed the survey data to understand the experiences of GPs in the UK and how they compare to other countries.
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Content ArticleThis report by the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) sets out recommendations for the Government to tackle the workforce and workload crisis in general practice, and support GPs and their teams to meet the healthcare challenges of the 21st century. Based on a survey of more than 2,600 GPs and other practice team members from across the UK, the report provides a snapshot of what frontline staff have faced during one of the most difficult winters experienced in the NHS, and what they think needs to happen to make general practice more sustainable. Respondents describe a profession in crisis, with unmanageable workload and workforce pressures fuelling an exodus of fully qualified GPs.
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Content ArticleThis blog by the Centre for Mental Health looks at data about young people's mental health in 2022 from NHS Digital, highlighting the urgent need for effective mental health services and support for young people. It looks at what needs to change to improve the picture for young people's mental health including addressing child poverty, implementing whole school and college approaches and investing in early intervention support.
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Content ArticleEurocontrol’s HindSight magazine is a magazine on human and organisational factors in operations, in air traffic management and beyond. This issue has articles from front-line staff and specialists in safety, human factors, and human and organisational performance, in aviation and elsewhere. The articles cover all aspects of everyday work, including routine work, unwanted events, and excellence. The authors discuss a variety of ways to learn from everyday work, including observation, discussion, surveys, reflection, and data analysis. There are articles on specific topics to help learn from others’ experience, including from other sectors in ‘views from elsewhere’
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Content ArticleResearchers writing in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine say that while UK life expectancy has increased in absolute terms over recent decades, other, similar countries are experiencing larger increases. In 1952, when Queen Elizabeth II came to the throne, the UK had one of the longest life expectancies in the world, ranking seventh globally behind countries such as Norway, Sweden and Denmark. In 2021 the UK was ranked 29th. The researchers show the rankings of the G7 countries at each decade from 1950 to 2020. The G7 is a collection of countries with advanced economies (UK, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the U.S.) that represent about half of global economic output.
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Content ArticleConcerns about Covid-19 related mental health are substantial, but the sheer volume of low quality evidence has posed a barrier to evidence synthesis and decision making. In this systematic review, Thombs et al. synthesised results of mental health outcomes in cohorts before and during the Covid-19 pandemic. The authors compared general mental health, anxiety symptoms, and depression symptoms in the general population and other groups during covid-19 with outcomes from the same cohorts before Covid-19. The study found high risk of bias in many studies and substantial heterogeneity suggest caution in interpreting results. Nonetheless, most symptom change estimates for general mental health, anxiety symptoms, and depression symptoms were close to zero and not statistically significant, and significant changes were of minimal to small magnitudes. Small negative changes occurred for women or female participants in all domains. The authors will update the results of this systematic review as more evidence accrues.
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Content ArticleEmergency care services in the UK face an unparalleled crisis, with more patients than ever before experiencing extremely long waiting times in Emergency Departments (EDs), associated with patient harm and excess deaths. This explainer from the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) outlines the latest data on ED waiting times and the impact this is having on patient safety.
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Top picks: Women's health inequity
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Today (8 March 2023) is International Women’s Day and this year’s theme is #embraceequity. Sex and gender-based inequities in health are widely recognised, with much work needed to improve care, treatment and outcomes for women. In this blog, we’ve selected seven resources to highlight and evidence some of the key patient safety issues and the need for greater investment in this area.- Posted
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Content ArticleIn this opinion piece, Kath Sansom, founder of Sling the Mesh, looks at why an audit of pelvic mesh outcomes due to be published in April 2023 has again failed to capture the true extent of the harm caused by the procedure. She outlines why the approach taken by the Government and NHS Digital was flawed and why it is so important to understand both the proportion of women who have experienced harm as a result of the procedure, and the nature of their injuries and side effects.
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Content ArticleThe new NHS recovery plan accepts that data on long delays in emergency departments must be published monthly to help improve patient care and hold systems to account, writes Katherine Henderson in this BMJ opinion piece.
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Content ArticleEvery day in 2020, approximately 800 women died from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth - meaning that a woman dies around every two minutes. Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target 3.1 is to reduce maternal mortality to less than 70 maternal deaths per 100 000 live births by 2030. This report presents internationally comparable global, regional and country-level estimates and trends for maternal mortality between 2000 and 2020.
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WHO: Introducing the Patient Safety Friendly Hospital Initiative
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The Patient Safety Friendly Hospital Initiative (PSFHI) aims to address the burden of unsafe care in the Eastern Mediterranean Region. It helps institutions in countries of the Region to launch comprehensive patient safety programmes, with assistance from the World Health Organization (WHO).- Posted
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Content ArticleThis report was produced by NHS Digital to investigate activity in the NHS in England surrounding patients who have had a procedure for the treatment of urogynaecological prolapse or stress urinary incontinence, including those where mesh, tape or their equivalents have been used. The report uses Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data and was undertaken to help the NHS and others establish a clearer national picture of patients who have had these procedures. NHS Digital notes that these statistics are classified as experimental and should be used with caution. Experimental statistics are new official statistics undergoing evaluation.
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