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Filter by:The goal of this type of study is to construct the continuous quality promotion project "ICU-NO CRBSI(Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infection , CRBSI)" based on improvement science, and to verify its effect in the prevention of central venous catheter-related bloodstream infection and continuous quality improvement in ICU ( Intensive Care Unit , ICU) through multi-center implementation and two rounds of improvement. The main question[s] it aims to answer are: What is the incidence of catheter-related bloodstream infection in the ICU of participating units? How compliant are health care providers in the ICU with evidence-based sensory control practices for the prevention of catheter-associated bloodstream infection? Participants will be provided with the hospital's routine CVC (Central Venous Catheter ,CVC) care practices and CVC quality improvement measures based on evidence-based guidelines What technical and cultural support is needed to implement quality and safety improvement measures?
With more frequent extreme weather events, climbing atmospheric Carbon dioxide and unabated use of fossil fuels, planetary health and sustainability will become crucial to future medical practice. Clinical educators must rise to the challenge, educating and empowering tutees to ensure their understanding of green healthcare principles and solutions. Research at the University College London and the Universities of Bristol and Exeter has been conducted into engaging medical students with the theory of sustainability. What has not been explored is how to have them engage with the topic practically, providing them with frameworks and opportunities to their knowledge into practical scenarios. What we propose is a short study conducted over the period of a month in October 2023 that pairs educational sessions to answer the research question: do practical workshops help to cement sustainable teaching for attendees, help them bring out their individual ideas and experience surrounding sustainability, and empower them to implement comparable solutions in their clinical practice? Historically, these projects have ignored multidisciplinary practice. Specialists of any grade in any field can practice sustainability. As such, any healthcare student/professional is eligible, pending their consent. To facilitate this broad eligibility base, and to bring diversity of ideas to the workshops, both students at Liverpool University and any interested staff at the Liverpool University Hospitals Foundation Trust will be eligible for the project. Following a pre-session questionnaire to gauge baseline, participants will be taught the core principles of clinical sustainability in a remote 2-hour, interactive lecture-based session. This would be followed up by a hybrid 2-hour practical workshop session later that week. Here, those consenting to attend will have a chance to work through different clinical scenarios with experts in different fields. Each session will have feedback forms to gauge compounding of knowledge, engagement and empowerment, our primary outcome measures.
The goal of this quality improvement study is to measure the impact of incorporation of a manual rapid fluid infuser (RFI) for intravenous crystalloid infusion in patients with suspected sepsis in the prehospital interval. The main question[s] it aims to answer are: - Does the intervention affect the timeliness of fluid administration? - Does the intervention affect CMS sepsis bundle care measure compliance? - Does the intervention affect processes and outcomes of care? - Are there any adverse effects? Researchers will compare this intervention to use of more conventional gravity or pressure-infusion bag crystalloid infusion.
A prospective, multicenter and cluster randomised controlled trial will be conducted, using hospital as randomisation unit. Hospitals in Zhejiang Province, China, will be randomised into two arms (1:1): an intervention arm and a control arm. Hospitals in the intervention arm will receive a multilevel system intervention based on information platform, whereas hospitals in the control arm will receive no intervention. The randomisation will be conducted after baseline data collection. The following baseline data will be used for randomisation match: hospital classification, beds in stroke centre, and the number of acute ischemic stroke (AIS) patients within 7 days of stroke onset. Hospitals with <250 AIS cases per year will be excluded from the study. The primary outcome will be difference between intervention arm and control arm in the one-year stroke recurrence rate on the follow-up stage (post-intervention).
The goal of this randomized trial is to test the impact of mailing personalized prescribing Portraits (an audit and feedback tool) and Therapeutics Letters (a reference document) to physicians on first-line prescribing to patients with uncomplicated urinary tract infection (UTI) . The main question this study aims to answer is: • To what extent can personal prescribing feedback Portraits and Therapeutics Letters have an effect on how physicians prescribe antibiotics for uncomplicated UTI? Approximately 5,000 British Columbian Family Practitioners (FP's) have been randomly divided into three groups, and each group received the Portrait at different times. To help ascertain the possible impact of Portraits, pooled data on first-line prescribing for uncomplicated UTI by FP's who received the Portrait at an early time point (September 23, 2021) will be compared to that of those who received a Portrait at a delayed time point (March 28, 2022). Researchers will compare prescribing data from these groups to see if the prescribing Portraits have had a differential impact on prescribing of antibiotics for uncomplicated UTI.
This study is based on the implementation of the method named "Learning-from-excellence", see methodology www.learningfromexcellence.com. The project is a longitudinal cohort study based on data from both qualitative and quantitative data, presented in two different research articles, one qualitative and one quantitative, using : - an electronic hosptal staff survey on "work-engagement, team collaboration, patient safety climate, and working conditions" before and after implementing Learning from Excellence. - focus group interviews to explore experiences with the method of Learning from excellence from the view of healthcare professionals.
Hospitals ineffectively examine the safety of their processes by relying on voluntary incident reporting (VIR) by clinical staff who are overworked and afraid to report. VIR captures only 1-10% of events, excludes patients and families, and underdetects events in vulnerable groups like patients with language barriers. Patients and families are vigilant partners in care who are adept at identifying errors and AEs. Failing to actively include patients and families in safety reporting and instead relying on flawed VIR presents an important missed opportunity to improve safety. To improve hospital safety, there is a critical need to coproduce (create in partnership with families) effective systems to identify uncaptured errors. Without this information, hospitals are impeded in their ability to improve patient safety. In partnership with diverse families, nurses, physicians, and hospital leaders, investigators created a multicomponent communication intervention to engage families of hospitalized children in safety reporting. The intervention includes 3 elements: (1) a Spanish and English mobile (email, text, and QR-code) reporting tool prompting families to share concerns and suggestions about safety, (2) family/staff education, and (3) a process for sharing family reports with the unit and hospital so systemic issues can be addressed. After piloting the intervention in one inpatient unit, marked improvements in family safety reporting and reductions in disparities in reporting by parent education and language results. The investigators now propose to conduct an RCT of the intervention in 4 geographically, ethnically, and linguistically diverse hospitals. The specific aims are to: (1) evaluate the effectiveness of the intervention in improving error detection and other safety outcomes, (2) assess the impact of the intervention on disparities in reporting, and (3) understand contextual factors contributing to successful implementation of the intervention. If effective, the intervention will contribute by: (1) increasing patient/family engagement in reporting, especially from vulnerable groups, (2) identifying otherwise unrecognized events, and (3) enabling hospitals to better understand safety problems in a 360-degree manner and design more effective, patient-centered solutions.
Morbidity and mortality reviews represent an opportunity to discuss adverse events and healthcare issues. Aim is to report the first experience of implementing a standardized procedure of morbidity and mortality reviews, and assess its impact on quality improvement.
To describe the barriers and facilitators experienced by residents, health and social care staff, commissioners and regulators when managing medicines within care homes.
This is a three-year pre- and post- interventional study to assess the effectiveness of collaborative quality improvement interventions on reducing mortality and severe intracranial hemorrhage (ICH) for neonates receiving extracorporeal life support (ECLS) in China.