PATIENT safety is set to be placed high on the primary care agenda in Scotland, following the launch of the Scottish Patient Safety Programme in Primary Care last week. The primary care programme builds on the success of the Scottish Patient Safety Programme in Acute Care, which recently ...
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Nurse–Patient Ratios as a Patient Safety Strategy A small percentage of patients die during hospitalization or shortly thereafter, and it is widely believed that more or better nursing care could prevent s... Paul,G.,Shekelle - 《Annals of Internal Medicine》 被引量: 114发表: 2013年 Effect...
as well as increased risk of experiencing patient safety incidents. To date however no review exists to identify, map and analyse the literature in this area in order to understand 1) which marginalised groups have been studied in terms of patient safety research, 2) what the particular...
Applicants are needed to incorporate a risk management strategy in their MAA. This portrays the latest information on the product safety and imminent pharmacovigilance (PhV) actions planned to monitor the product’s safety. Patient registries are a kind of system which employ observational means (word...
Despite some evidence that more nurses in hospitals could benefit patient safety, similar policies have not been widely implemented across the globe, partly due to an absence of data on the long-term effects and costs, as well as limited resources. In recent years, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland...
Analysis strategy We explored bivariate (crude) associations between each of the six patient factors and the outcome measure using w2-tests. The selected patient factors were age group (seven categories), sex, ethnicity (White, Black, Mixed, Asian and other), broad cancer type (22 groups), ...
This document reflects an urgent need for prudent antibiotic use as one of three key elements of the strategy to control antibiotic resistance. The ALTAR study aims to provide high-level contemporary evidence of the relative effectiveness of a non-antibiotic UTI prevention treatment compared to the ...
Moreover, with the rising cost of allo- genic blood administration, the use of cell salvage has surged as a valuable strategy in numerous types of inva- sive procedures [38]. In general, a cell salvage machine is used to prevent red blood cells wastage. The patient's shed blood aspirated...
In order to manage these claims, the NHS has a dedicated service in the form of NHS Resolution which serves to deal with all claims, improve practitioner performance and improve safety and services following cases of medical negligence. The NHS is dedicated to providing the best healthcare ...