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Public reporting of HAI rates
Tập 17 Số 2 - Trang 124-133 - 2012
PurposeHealth‐care associated infections (HAIs) kill about 100,000 people
annually; many are preventable. In response, 18 states currently require
hospitals to publicly report their infection rates and national reporting is
planned. Yet there is limited evidence on the effects of public reporting on HAI
rates, and none on what elements of a reporting plan affect its impact on HAI
rates. The author...
Audits and their impact on clinical practice
- 2011
PurposeThis paper aims to examine the impact of a number of audits on clinical
practice within a large mental health NHS trust. It aims to consider all audits
that had been reaudited by psychiatry trainees and to compare the adherence to
various standards before and after reaudit.Design/methodology/approachThe
authors examined all available clinical audits undertaken by psychiatry trainees
that ha...
Section 136 assessments in Trafford Borough of Manchester
- 2011
PurposeThe aim of this study is to ascertain a trend of the section 136
assessments over a period of time and compare it with the standards laid down by
the code of practice.Design/methodology/approachThe study looks at trends over a
period of eight months since the opening of the section 136 services. The
demographic details such as age, gender, and ethnicity were recorded. The other
variables re...
Impact of reduction in working hours for doctors in training on postgraduate medical education and patients’ outcomes
Tập 16 Số 3 - 2011
Implementing NICE guidelines: the difficulties
Tập 12 Số 4 - Trang 267-269 - 2007
PurposeThis purpose of this study is to look at the availability of routine
antenatal anti‐D prophylaxis (RAADP) in the maternity units within the
North‐west Deanery, England five years after the publication of this technology
appraisal guideline (no. 41) by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence
(NICE).Design/methodology/approachAntenatal clinics of all the major 18
maternity hospitals we...