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Safety measurement and monitoring in healthcare: a framework to guide clinical teams and healthcare organisations in maintaining safety
(2014)
Patients, clinicians and managers all want to be reassured that their healthcare organisation is safe. But there is no consensus about what we mean when we ask whether a healthcare organisation is safe or how this is ...
Predicting clinical deterioration after initial assessment in out-of-hours primary care: a retrospective service evaluation
(2017-01)
Background: Accurate assessment of the need for admission is challenging in out-of-hours (OOH) primary care. Understanding more about patient contacts where the decision to continue care in the community may have been ...
Building improvement capacity in mental health services
(2020-10)
Improving the delivery of existing treatment may often bring much greater benefits than developing new treatments and technologies. To achieve this, clinical teams and organisations need to build capacity for sustained and ...
Absconding: reducing failure to return in adult mental health wards
(2016-11)
Failing to return from leave from acute psychiatric wards can have a range of negative consequences for patients, relatives and staff. This study used quality improvement methodology to improve the processes around patient ...
Environmental changes to reduce self-harm on an adolescent inpatient psychiatric ward: an interrupted time series analysis
(2020-07)
Existing interventions to reduce self-harm in adolescents admitted to psychiatric wards are usually focused on individual psychological treatments. However, the immediate ward environment in which treatment takes place is ...
Systematic review of interventions to improve constant observation on adult inpatient psychiatric wards
(2020-02)
Constant observation is frequently conducted on inpatient psychiatric units to manage patients at risk of harming themselves or others. Despite its widespread use, there is little evidence of the efficacy of the practice ...
Paediatric enteral feeding at home: an analysis of patient safety incidents
(2019-06)
Aims To describe the nature and causes of patient
safety incidents relating to care at home for children with
enteral feeding devices.
Methods We analysed incident data relating to
paediatric nasogastric, gastrostomy ...
Patient safety regulation in the NHS: mapping the regulatory landscape of healthcare
(2019-07)
Objectives The current research project sought to map out the regulatory landscape for patient safety in the English National Health Service (NHS).
Method We used a systematic desk-based search using a variety of sources ...