Journal of health services research & policy
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J Health Serv Res Policy · Apr 2010
Consensus methods to identify a set of potential performance indicators for systems of emergency and urgent care.
To identify a comprehensive set of indicators to enable Primary Care Trust (PCT) commissioners in England and other NHS decision-makers to monitor the performance of systems of emergency and urgent care for which they are responsible. ⋯ System-wide measures to monitor performance across multiple services should encourage providers to work for patient benefit in an integrated way. They will also assist commissioners to monitor and improve emergency and urgent care for their local populations. The indicators are now being calculated using routinely available data, and tested for their responsiveness to capture change over time.
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J Health Serv Res Policy · Jan 2010
Feedback from reporting patient safety incidents--are NHS trusts learning lessons?
For the study, first published in 2006, the researchers examined how well NHS organisations had attempted to use the information they gathered from adverse clinical incidents and whether they were learning from it. By looking at existing relevant research worldwide, interviewing experts, surveying NHS organizations (acute, community and ambulance), consulting health care and other high-risk industry safety experts and NHS risk managers, and investigating case studies of good practice, they developed a model to assess how ready NHS systems were to learn from incidents. This is known as Safety Action and Information Feedback from Incident Reporting (SAIFIR).
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J Health Serv Res Policy · Jan 2010
Testing new devices to help prevent 'misconnection' errors in health care.
The study, the first part of which was published in 2008, looked at, prospectively, how effective and safe new, non-traditional connectors were for use in spinal connector equipment such as spinal needles and infusion lines. The researchers analysed existing evidence on adverse incidents in this area, held workshops to discuss the problem, tested new devices with a simulator, and evaluated them in clinical practice trials at four different hospitals in England.
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The study, first published in 2006, looks at patient safety from the perspective of surgery, looking at surgeons' technical skills, surgical team performance in the operating theatre, the team's views of their performance, interruptions and distractions, and multidisciplinary team training in surgery using simulated training scenarios.