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Content ArticleNHS England helps illustrate the benefits of business continuity planning and how the planning is implemented during a response. Case studies have been put together from various incident debrief reports from organisations to provide examples of approaches to incident reports and also allow identification of learning across organisations
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Content ArticleWritten by the safety team at Morecambe Bay Hospital NHS Trust. Introducing staff to the team, their governance hub, a new support system for staff involved in an investigation and what happens in an inquest by the legal team.
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Content ArticlePresentation from the BMJ/IHI 2012 conference in Paris.
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Content ArticleBoth national and maternity investigations are showing a high level of family engagement through an inclusive and innovative model that ensures families have a voice throughout investigations. Here the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch (HSIB) demonstrate how they involve families in their investigations.
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Content ArticleThis document from the World Health Organization (WHO) is to urge the readers to understand the purpose, strengths and limitations of patient safety incident reporting. Data derived from incident reports can be very valuable in understanding the scale and nature of harm arising from health care, provided that the properties of the data are reviewed carefully and conclusions are drawn with caution. The use of incident reporting systems for true learning in order to achieve sustainable reductions in risk and improvements in patient safety is still work in progress. It can be and has been done, but not yet on the scale and with the speed that compares with some other high-risk industries. That is what we must all strive for. This technical guidance will help the journey to a position where we can show patients and their families how we used this learning to give them care that is safe and dependable, every time they need it.
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Content ArticleKeith Conradi, Chief Investigator at the Health Service Investigation Branch, presented at the Patient Safety Learning Conference on HSIB’s challenges and achievements in its first year.
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Content ArticleTraditionally, clinicians present complications at surgical morbidity and mortality (M&M) conferences, and the AHRQ Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs) use inpatient administrative data to identify certain adverse outcomes. Although both methods are used to identify adverse events and inform quality improvement efforts, these two methods might not overlap. This is a retrospective observational study from Anderson et al. of all hospitalisations at a single academic department of surgery (including subspecialties) in 2016 involving a PSI-defined event identified by surgery faculty and residents for review by departmental M&M conference or administrative data. The authors analysed the degree to which these two processes captured PSI-defined events and reasons for exclusion by each process. The study found that surgical M&M and the PSIs are complementary approaches to identifying complications. Both case-finding processes should be used to inform quality improvement efforts.
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Content ArticlePreventable adverse events are an ongoing challenge in healthcare. International studies demonstrate that 3%–17% of admissions are associated with an adverse event (defined as an injury caused by healthcare management resulting in prolonged hospitalisation, disability on discharge or death). Approximately half of the adverse events are preventable. Little is known about adverse events in the Irish healthcare system.Therefore, recommendations on improving patient safety at a national level are being made on limited information. The aim of the Irish National Adverse Events Study (INAES) from Rafter et al. was to quantify the frequency and nature of adverse events in acute hospitals in the Republic of Ireland for the first time using an internationally recognised retrospective patient chart review methodology.