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Recognising and managing frailty in primary care (May 2017)
Claire Cox posted an article in GP and primary care
This issue of Effectiveness Matters has been produced by the Centres for Review and Dissemination in collaboration with the Yorkshire and Humber AHSN and the Improvement Academy and updates a previous issue published in January 2015. Frailty is a distinct health state related to reduced function across multiple physiological systems that develops as part of the ageing process. Frailty means that even minor events can trigger disproportionate changes in health status after which the patient fails to recover to their previous level of health.- Posted
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Content ArticleThis is a competency based framework for patient safety set out by the Canadian Patient Safety Institute.
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Content ArticleThis extensive resource, by the Canadian Patient Safety Institute, based on evidence and leading practices, helps patients and families, patient partners, providers, and leaders work together more effectively to improve patient safety. The Institute states that collaboratively, we can more proactively identify risks, better support those involved in an incident, and help prevent similar incidents from occurring in the future.
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Content ArticleToolkit to promote safe surgery helps peri-operative and surgical units in US hospitals identify opportunities to improve care and safety practices and implement evidence-based interventions to prevent surgical site infections. The toolkit has evidence-based, practical resources that reflect the real-world experiences of the frontline clinicians and subject matter experts who participated in a national implementation project.
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Content ArticleToolkit to improve safety for mechanically ventilated patients helps hospitals in the US make care safer for mechanically ventilated patients in intensive care units (ICUs). ICU staff can use the toolkit to reduce complications for patients on ventilators.
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Content ArticleResearch shows that when patients are engaged in their healthcare, it can lead to measurable improvements in safety and quality. To promote stronger engagement, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has developed a guide to help patients, families, and health professionals in primary care settings work together as partners to improve care.
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Content ArticlePatient awareness, understanding and engagement is an important aspect to be considered in action plans to improve hand hygiene. This guidance encourages partnerships between patients, their families, and healthcare workers to promote hand hygiene in healthcare settings. Positive engagement with patients and patient organisations in the pursuit of improving hand hygiene compliance by health-care workers has the potential to strengthen infection prevention and control globally and reduce the harm to patients caused by healthcare associated infection.
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Patient information for surgical safety: WHO leaflet (2015)
Claire Cox posted an article in Keeping patients safe
This leaflet produced by the World Health Organization (WHO) is aimed at patients who are undergoing a surgical procedure. It aims to enable communication between you and your surgical team, including you in safety checks.- Posted
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Content ArticleA guide supporting clinical, patient experience and quality teams to draw on patient experience data to improve quality in healthcare.
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Content ArticleThis report aims to build a better understanding of the role of patient and public involvement (PPI) in research, helping ensure meaningful involvement that has tangible impacts and to mitigate against undesired consequences.
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Content ArticlePatient engagement improves patient, organisation and health system outcomes, but most research is based on primary care. The primary purpose of this study was to describe the characteristics of published research that evaluated patient engagement in hospital health service improvement.
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Content ArticleThe purpose of this study was to describe patient engagement as a safety strategy from the perspective of hospitalised surgical patients with cancer.
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Content ArticleInteresting article, by the Patient Safety Network, around how patients can be involved in the solution and the cause of some patient safety incidents.
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Content ArticleInvolving patients in improving safety is a Health Foundation publication also known as an evidence scan. It is designed to help those involved in improving the quality of healthcare understand what research is available on a particular topic. This publication describes research into how patients have been involved in improving safety. It addresses two questions: How have patients and carers been involved in improving safety in healthcare? Is there any evidence that patient involvement leads to improved safety?
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Content ArticleThis report from the King's Fund explores in more detail the role of leaders in engaging a range of significant others in improving health and healthcare.
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Content ArticleIn this thought paper published by The Health Foundation, Dr Rebecca Lawton and Dr Gerry Armitage look at ways to involve patients in clinical safety and the readiness of patients and health professionals to adopt new roles. They discuss the importance of involving patients in the development of patient engagement and involvement strategies. Genuine patient involvement in their own care requires a fundamental cultural shift in the relationship between patients and clinicians.
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Content ArticleThis guide published by the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ) is a tested, evidence-based resource to help hospitals in the United States work as partners with patients and families to improve quality and safety.
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Content ArticleThis discussion paper published in Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare (PSQH) examines the possible barriers and facilitators to patient engagement drawn from a literature search. It proposes a framework with recommendations to address these barriers and promote patient-provider engagement.
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Content ArticleA report of the National Patient Safety Foundation’s Lucian Leape Institute's roundtable on consumer engagement in patient safety. This US based report looks at how increasing engagement between those who provide care and those who receive it at every level can result in improved health care outcomes for individuals and safer and more productive work environments for healthcare professionals.
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Content ArticleThe involvement of patients in their care is a top priority for the NHS, highlighted in the NHS Constitution and the NHS Five Year Forward View. Healthcare providers are encouraged to develop different relationships with patients and communities to help empower them and engage them in their care. This same approach applies to patient safety in healthcare, where greater engagement of patients is seen as one of the building blocks for improvement. .
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Content ArticleCaring for patients in their homes holds many potential benefits, yet the safety of care provided in the home has not received as much attention as patient safety in hospitals and other clinical settings. In this video, Chief Clinical and Safety Officer Tejal Gandhi provides an overview of the Institute of Healthcare Improvement report, No Place Like Home: Advancing the Safety of Care in the Home.
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Content ArticleHealthcare isn’t the only industry that’s working to protect people in dangerous environments. Each year at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) National Forum, the IHI faculty leads excursions to organisations outside of healthcare to learn about how they do their work. Kathy Duncan, IHI Faculty, leads a trip to the Central Florida Zoo, which has one of North America’s largest collections of venomous snakes. In this video, Duncan goes behind the scenes to learn about the staff’s safety procedures for handling snakes when they need to be moved from their enclosures.
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Content ArticleThe Institute for Healthcare Improvement's (IHI) Tejal Gandhi and AHRQ’s Jeffrey Brady discuss the need for national goals and a collaborative approach in the US to advancing patient safety and sustaining improvement across systems and settings.
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Content ArticleThe assessment of acute-illness severity in adult non-pregnant patients in the UK is based on early warning score (EWS) values that determine the urgency and nature of the response to patient deterioration. This study from Freathy et al., published in the journal Resuscitation, aimed to describe, and identify variations in, the expected clinical response outlined in ‘deteriorating patient’ policies/guidelines in acute NHS hospitals.
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Content ArticlePatients with delirium have changes in their thinking and are often confused and cannot pay attention. About half of patients in an intensive care unit (ICU) have delirium during their stay. Research has shown that patients with delirium are more likely to die or to have long-term brain problems, including posttraumatic stress disorder, depression and other mental health issues, than those without delirium. Although nurses and doctors have tools to measure delirium in the ICU, it can be hard to identify and, in some cases, may be missed. Family members may be the first to notice that their loved ones have changes in their thinking or cannot pay attention. There are tools called the Family Confusion Assessment Method (FAM-CAM) and Sour Seven questionnaire that can be used by family members to detect delirium. However, neither of these tools has been used in an ICU. This study from Krewulak et al., published in CmajOPEN, shows that these tools can be used by family members to measure delirium in the ICU. The results from this study could lead to a change in policy that would involve partnering with family members to improve the diagnosis of delirium in the ICU. In turn, this would improve patient and family care and outcomes in the ICU.