Quality and Safety in Health CareEmslie, S., Knox, K., Pickstone, M. (2003). Improving Patient Safety: Insights from American, Australian and British Healthcare, Welwyn Garden City: ECRI.Anderson P. Improving P
Given the poor outcomes for many lung cancer pa- tients and the ongoing costs to the healthcare system, best practice guidelines have been created to streamline and standardise the lung cancer diagnosis and treatment pathway. These pathways emphasise timely review and early involvement of a lung ...
I have seen several deaths in aged care facilities in 12-24hours following the vaccination in people who were previously stable. Each time the entire file has been completely removed from the system and any notes by staff related to vaccine were del...
Findings therefore suggest that despite a healthcare system that provides universal coverage and a well-established and extensive system of social security, some individuals with chronic illness face substantial cost burden, which falls most heavily on those least able to bear it. As household ...
1 Handover of care is a critical point of communication exchange, recognized as a high risk for patients due to the risk of miscommunication between health care providers.1 Verbal handover without written records to support recall has the potential to result in communication errors, which can ...
The costs and burden of the diagnostic process to patients, clinicians and the healthcare system are significant. 1.2. Contemporary Outcomes of ACS and Chest Pain in Australia Patient level estimates of overall 30-day outcomes and 12-month mortality rates within Australian contemporary practice, as ...
The health system needs to provide detailed guidance for clinicians involved in the care of these children, providing standards against which they can benchmark and monitor their performance. Such guidance needs to cover simple assessment, such as charting of weight and height, judicious diagnostic ...
of hospitalizations for sports-related injuries in the last decade; however, hospi- talizations may represent the more severe spectrum of in- juries and timeline assessment of total sports injuries may provide different results depending on where they were treated and the local healthcare system. ...
Amine functionalized cubic mesoporous silica nanoparticles as an oral delivery system for curcumin bioavailability enhancement. Nanotechnology, 27 (50) 505605, 505605. doi: 10.1088/0957-4484/27/50/505605 Liu, Chao, Wang, Jing, Wan, Jingjing, Cheng, Yan, Huang, Rong, Zhang, Chaoqi, Hu, Wenli,...
Racism and perinatal health inequities research: where we have been and where we should go 2022, American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology Citation Excerpt : However, recent work regarding preterm birth provides an illustrative example of how researchers can tie macrosocial exposures to biologic pr...