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Content ArticleThe Health Index is a new tool to measure a broad variety of health outcomes and risk factors over time, and for different geographic areas. This methodology article explains how the Health Index has been constructed.
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Content ArticleThe Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) aims to improve the culture of safety while providing frontline caregivers with the tools and support that they need to identify and tackle the hazards that threaten their patients at the unit or clinic level. Developed by Johns Hopkins safety and quality researchers, the five-step programme has been used to target a wide range of hazards, including patient falls, hospital-acquired infections, medication administration errors, specimen labeling errors and teamwork and communication breakdowns. Notably, CUSP has been used in national and international quality improvement projects that have drastically reduced hospital-acquired infections. Whether your hospital has participated in such projects or is seeking to adopt CUSP, the Armstrong Institute provides resources to help you run a successful programme.
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Content ArticleThis programme referred to as CUSP is an intervention methodology that will help you to learn from mistakes and improve your team's (and organisation's) safety culture. Watch this Johns Hopkins Medicine's video on CUSP.
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NHS East London: QI Essentials. Beyond Projects
Claire Cox posted an article in Implementation of improvements
Improvement is now becoming a way of life and a way of being. How do we hold onto and strengthen our approach to QI projects? Have a read of Amar’s latest QI Essentials Blog. Amar Shah is a consultant forensic psychiatrist and Chief Quality Officer at East London NHS Foundation Trust. -
Content ArticleWhen patients are harmed as a result of the care they receive through Alberta Health Services (AHS), the organisation has a responsibility to understand how the harm happened and, where appropriate, respond to improve the healthcare system. This handbook has been developed to assist and support AHS staff and medical staff to retrospectively review clinical adverse events, hazards and close calls using Systems Analysis Methodologies (SAM). It is not an administrative review of individual healthcare provider performance. Using these methodologies, the complex interactions of all the components within the health system are considered, not the individual contributions of healthcare providers that have or may have led to harm. This creates opportunities to identify vulnerabilities in structures, processes and practices that can be improved and ultimately make care safer.
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Content ArticleHelen Jones, National Investigator at Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB), presented at the recent Patient Safety Strategy Discussion Forum. Helen's presentation focused on how the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) will run alongside the investigation expertise at HSIB and the implications of the proposed changes set out in the Health Service Safety Investigations Bill. She shared the recommendations that HSIB have made and the delegates discussed the accountability framework for their implementation as this is outside of HSIB’s current remit.
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Content ArticleThe Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is the lead Federal agency charged with improving the safety and quality of America's health care system. AHRQ develops the knowledge, tools, and data needed to improve the health care system and help Americans, health care professionals, and policymakers make informed health decisions. This Patient Safety chartbook is part of a family of documents and tools that support the National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report. This chartbook includes a summary of trends across measures of patient safety from the QDR and figures illustrating select measures of patient safety.
