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Content ArticleThis study from Morris et al. aimed to review the literature describing and quantifying time lags in the health research translation process. Papers were included in the review if they quantified time lags in the development of health interventions. The study identified 23 papers. Few were comparable as different studies use different measures, of different things, at different time points.
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Content ArticleThis is part of our series of Patient Safety Spotlight interviews, where we talk to people working for patient safety about their role and what motivates them. Tracey talks to us about the role of NHS Supply Chain in ensuring the products procured through the NHS Supply are of high quality and are safe for healthcare organisations to use. She also highlights the vital importance of complaints and the need for staff who don’t work in direct care delivery to recognise their role in patient safety.
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Content ArticleThis report by the US non-profit organisation the Emergency Care Research Institute (ECRI) was commissioned by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to determine the safety profile of polypropylene (PP) mesh used in a variety of surgical procedures. ECRI performed a comprehensive literature search and systematic review to identify the current state of knowledge about how patients' bodies respond to PP mesh.
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Advancing Quality Alliance: Safety Culture Survey
Patient Safety Learning posted an article in Culture
This programme from the Advancing Quality Alliance (Aqua) provides participants with the tools, skills and knowledge to oversee the successful implementation of a safety culture survey in organisations. Participants of this programme will develop a working knowledge of safety culture theory and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) safety culture survey alongside the support that Aqua provides to enable deployment and analysis of the survey. This programme links directly to Aqua’ safety offers, including Psychological Safety, Human Factors and Improvement Practitioner programmes.- Posted
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Content Article“Can I use a teaspoon to measure my cough syrup?” “Is it ok to crush my pills?” “Are generic and brand name drugs really the same?” The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) fellow and emergency room nurse, Michelle Bell, and medication safety officer for Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Sharon Camperchioli, answer patient questions about medication.
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Content ArticleThe World Health Organisation's third World Patient Safety Day took place on 17 September. This year’s theme was medication safety. In this blog, Clare Wade, Assistant Director of Casework at the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) discusses the impact of medication errors and gives examples of poor practice.
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Content ArticleIn healthcare, there is a well-recognised gap between what we know should be done, and what is actually done. This article considers new models that look at the implementation of evidence-based practice in healthcare systems, particularly looking at the application of a conceptual model called 'sticky knowledge'.
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Content ArticleIn this blog for Psychology Today, Gary Klein looks at the psychological causes of diagnostic errors, arguing that being clear about the exact causes of these errors is the only way to reduce them. Drawing on physical causes of diagnostic error identified in an Institute of Medicine report in 2015, he highlights the need to go further in understanding the explanations the report offers for diagnostic errors.
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Content ArticleThe successful implementation of clinical practice guidelines should improve quality of care by decreasing inappropriate variation and expediting the application of effective advances to practice. However, despite wide promulgation, practice guidelines have had limited effect on changing physician behavior. Cabana et al. conducted a systematic review of the barriers to physician adherence to clinical practice guidelines, practice parameters, clinical policies or national consensus statements. They found that physician adherence is dependent on physician awareness (31 examples), agreement (68 examples), self-efficacy (13 examples), outcome expectancy (12 examples), motivation (3 examples), and the absence of external barriers to perform guideline recommendations (62 examples). The findings suggest that studies describing interventions to improve physician adherence may not be generalisable, since barriers in one setting may not be present in another. Using this analysis, the authors propose a framework which describes the barriers that must be overcome to improve physician adherence. This framework can be used (1) as a method to profile barriers or sources of poor adherence and thus (2) as a diagnostic tool to standardise and select appropriate interventions to improve adherence. The selection of interventions to change physician behaviour has been haphazard in the past. This analysis offers a more rational approach towards improving physician adherence to practice guidelines as well as a framework for further research.
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Content ArticleFor over three decades, patients, consultants and perioperative staff have been exposed to diathermy tissue smoke in all operating hospital theatres. This smoke is called plaque and, when inhaled, is the same as smoking cigarettes. Research shows that inhalation of smoke from one gram of cauterised tissue is equal to smoking six cigarettes. This smoke is also cancerous and can mutate to other organs of the body just like cigarettes. Read my personal view of the harmful effects of diathermy smoke published in the Journal of Perioperative Practice, and also watch the short video kindly made for me by Knowlex UK.
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Content ArticleIn this series 'e-Patient Dave' deBronkart shares what we all need to know to get the best medical care without going broke or getting killed in the process. An 'e-patient' is someone who is empowered, engaged, equipped, and able, who never expected the system to do everything but thinks and acts like a responsible independent person.
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Content ArticleThis study in JAMA Network Open aimed to investigate whether attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is over diagnosed in children and adolescents. The authors reviewed 334 published studies and found convincing evidence that ADHD is over diagnosed. They highlight that the harms associated with ADHD diagnosis may outweigh the benefits, particularly in children and young people with milder symptoms.
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Content ArticleThe NHS Knowledge Mobilisation Framework is designed to help individuals to develop and use skills to mobilise knowledge effectively in their organisations – to help them to learn before, during and after everything that they do so that pitfalls can be avoided and best practice replicated. It is a re-working of an original concept devised by what was the Department of Health Connecting for Health Knowledge Management Team and the Kent, Surrey and Sussex Library and Knowledge Services Team. The modules introduce eleven techniques to help plan, co-ordinate and implement knowledge mobilisation activities in your organisation. Accompanying the framework are a set of quick reference cards.
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