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Content ArticleThis month’s Letter from America highlights approaches to addressing persistent patient safety challenges, such as overprescribing of opioids and staff burnout, through working with clinicians, staff and patients to enhance service delivery and care and opportunities to effectively engage communities. Letter from America is the latest in a Patient Safety Learning blog series highlighting fresh accomplishments in patient safety from the United States.
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CQUIN for deteriorating patients: proforma (February 2020)
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Dr Matt-Inada-Kim, National Clinical Lead for Sepsis and Deterioration, shares the proforma he has developed to document management and treatment for the deteriorating patient for the new CQUIN, coming soon. This proforma ensures that all the CQUIN data is captured when it comes to audit. He has shared his accompanying slide set explaining about the CQUIN.- Posted
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Content ArticleThe PRAISe project tests the hypothesis that, together, positive reporting and appreciative inquiry can be used as an intervention to facilitate behavioural change and improvement in the related areas of sepsis management and antimicrobial stewardship.
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Content ArticleThe PRAISe project tests the hypothesis that, together, positive reporting and appreciative inquiry can be used as an intervention to facilitate behavioural change and improvement in the related areas of sepsis management and antimicrobial stewardship.
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Content ArticlePeople with developmental disability have higher healthcare needs and lower life expectancy compared with the general population. Poor quality of care resulting from interpersonal and systemic discrimination may further entrench existing inequalities.
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Content ArticleUCLPartners delivered two breakthrough series collaboratives with 13 acute hospital trusts in the north Thames region to transform the care provided to patients with acute kidney injury (AKI) and sepsis. The aims for the AKI and sepsis collaboratives were to achieve improvements in the recognition and treatment of patients admitted to hospital with AKI or sepsis, as well as to increase NHS staff quality improvement capability across the region. The analysis of over 2,000 AKI and sepsis cases throughout the programme showed that both collaboratives exceeded their aims, and reduced AKI mortality by 47%, and sepsis mortality by 24%.
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Content ArticleThis article by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provides advice for patients about steps they can take to help avoid catching healthcare-associated infections, which can ultimately lead to sepsis and even death. It outlines ten things patients and their families can do to protect themselves or their loved ones while receiving medical care. Speak up Keep hands clean Ask each day if your central line catheter or urinary catheter is necessary Prepare for surgery Ask your healthcare provider, “Will there be a new needle, new syringe, and a new vial for this procedure or injection?” Be antibiotics aware Watch out for deadly diarrhoea (aka Clostridium difficile) Know the signs and symptoms of infection Get vaccinated Cover your mouth and nose
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