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Tag Archives: Dr Foster
Guideline on Sepsis Recognition, Diagnosis and Early Management (NICE / BBC News / RCEM)
Summary The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) recently published “Sepsis: recognition, diagnosis and early management – guidance” (NG51). This presents recommendations on the identification and assessment people with suspected sepsis; risk factors and risk stratification; and the … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Community Care, Diagnosis, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), Management of Condition, NICE Guidelines, Standards, UK
Tagged Acute Sepsis, Antibiotic Treatment in People With Suspected Sepsis, Antimicrobial Stewardship, Avoidable Hospital Mortality, Avoidable Mortality, AVPU (Alert Voice Pain Unresponsive) Scale, AVPU: Alert V oice pain, BBC Health News, Dr Foster, Dr Foster Intelligence, Dr Ron Daniels: Chief Executive of UK Sepsis Trust, Emergency Medicine and Urgent Care, Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS), Improving Sepsis Recognition and Treatment, Infection and Infectious Diseases, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), NICE Guidance on Sepsis Recognition Diagnosis and Early Management (NG51), Patient Safety, Premature Mortality, Preventable Hospital Mortality, Professor Sir Brian Jarman, Quality Improvement, Raising Sepsis Awareness, Royal College of Emergency Medicine, Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM), Russells Hall Hospital (Dudley), Sepsis, Sepsis Awareness, Sepsis Bundles, Sepsis Recognition, Sepsis: Risk Stratification Tools, Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock: RCEM National Clinical Audit 2016/17, Sir Brian Jarman, unresponsiv e') scale
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Further Confirmation of the “Weekend Effect”: The Global Comparators Project (BMJ Quality and Safety / BBC News / OHE / Health Economics / BMJ)
Summary Recent research indicates that the “weekend effect” is a systematic phenomenon in the quality of healthcare, which impacts upon mortality rates in hospital care internationally. 2,982,570 hospital records from 28 hospitals in England, Australia, the USA and the Netherlands … Continue reading
Posted in Community Care, Department of Health, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), International, NHS, Nuffield Trust, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged 7 Day Services, ACALM Study Unit: Aston Medical School, Acute Care, Acute Hospital Care, Acute Hospitals, Aston Medical School: Aston University, Aston University, Australia, Avoidable Mortality, BBC Health News, BMJ, BMJ Quality and Safety, British Medical Journal (BMJ), CLAHRCs: NIHR Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care, Costs and Benefits of Seven-Day Services for Emergency Hospital Admissions, Culture Change in the NHS, Day-of-the-Week Effect, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery: University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Department of Health Sciences: University of York, Department of Informatics: University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Department of Primary Care and Population Health: University College London, Dr Fiona Godlee: Editor of the British Medical Journal, Dr Foster, Dr Foster Hospital Guide, Dr Foster Intelligence, Dr Foster Unit: Imperial College London, Dr Foster Unit: PCPH Imperial College London, Economics of Elevated Hospital Mortality at Weekends, Elective Procedures, Elevated Weekend Hospital Mortality, Emergency Admissions, Emergency Hospital Treatment, England, Farr Institute of Health Informatics Research: University College London, GC Database, Global Comparators (GC) Project, Global Comparators Project, Health Economics, Health Finance Managers Association (HFMA), Healthcare Financial Management Association, Healthcare Quality Improvement, HFMA: Healthcare Financial Management Association, High-Intensity Specialist-Led Acute Care (HiSLAC) Project, Hospital Mortality, Hospital Mortality Rates, Improving Patient Safety, Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine (JRSM), Manchester Centre for Health Economics: University of Manchester, Medical Director of NHS England: Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, Medical Directorate: NHS England, Monday to Friday Culture, Mortality, Mortality Associated With After Hours and Weekend Admissions, Mortality at the Weekend, Mortality by Day of the Week, Mortality Rates, Mortality Statistics, Myocardial Infarction Data Acquisition System (MIDAS), Netherlands, NHS Culture, NHS England, NHS Improving Quality (NHS IQ), NHS Improving Quality (NHS IQ) Seven Day Services Team, NHS Seven Days a Week Forum, Nigel Edwards: Nuffield Trust, NIHR CLAHRC West Midlands, NIHR Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care for Birmingham and the Black Country (NIHR CLAHRC-BBC), NIHR Health Services and Delivery Research Programme, Office of Health Economics (OHE), Orchestrated Intransigence, Patient Safety, Patient Safety Collaboratives, Patient Safety Improvement, Preventable Hospital Mortality, Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, Quality and Outcomes Research Unit: University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Quality Improvement, Quality of Care, Quality of Care at Weekends, QUORUM Metric for Comparing Hospital Death Rates, Seven Day Services Team: NHS Improving Quality (NHS IQ), Seven-Day Hospital Services, Seven-Day Working, Survivorship Models, UK National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC) West Midlands, United States, University College London, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, University of Manchester, University of Warwick, University of Warwick Medical School, University of York, Urgent and Emergency Care, USA, Variations in Quality of Care, Warwick Centre for Applied Health Research and Delivery: University of Warwick, Warwick Medical School: University of Warwick, Weekend Effect, Weekend Hospitalisation and Additional Risk of Death, Weekend Mortality for Emergency Admissions, Weekend Working, Workforce Challenges in Emergency Medicine
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Measures of Hospital Mortality Rates and Standards of Care (BBC News / BBC Radio 4’s “File on 4”)
Summary A leading health academic, Professor Nick Black, has been asked by NHS England to review whether the two main measures of mortality – the hospital standardised mortality ratio (HSMR) and the summary hospital-level mortality index (SHMI) – are meaningful … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Management of Condition, National, NHS, NHS Evidence, Patient Information, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Acute Care, Acute Hospital Care, Acute Hospitals, BBC Health News, BBC Radio 4, Care in General Hospitals, Care Quality Commission (CQC), Commissioning Local Services, CQC Acute Care Indicator Definitions and Sources, CQC Hospital Inspections, Dr Foster, Dr Foster Hospital Guide, Dr Foster Intelligence, Excess Mortality, File on 4 (BBC Radio 4), General Hospital Care, General Hospitals, Hospital Mortality, Hospital Mortality Rates, Hospital Standardised Mortality Ratios (HSMRs), Keogh Mortality Review, Keogh Review, Local Context, Local Disease Burden, Local Health Economy, Local Public Health, Local Service Providers, Measures of Hospital Mortality, Medical Director of NHS England: Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, Mortality in Older People, Mortality Statistics, Preventable Deaths in English Acute Hospitals, Professor Nick Black, Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, Quality of Care, Roger Taylor: Director of Research (Dr Foster Intelligence), SHMI: Summary Hospital-level Mortality indicator, Summary Hospital-level Mortality indicator (SHMI), Variations in Quality of Care
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Dr Foster Hospital Guide 2013 (Dr Foster)
Summary The 2013 Dr Foster Hospital Guide has four special themes: Whether financial austerity is changing how money is spent on hospital treatments. The impact of drug and alcohol problems on patients and hospitals. The quality of care at weekends … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, Commissioning, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, National, NHS, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, UK, Universal Interest
Tagged Acute Care, Acute Hospital Care, Acute Hospitals, Austerity, Avoidable Mortality, Care in General Hospitals, Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), Dr Foster, Dr Foster Hospital Guide, Dr Foster Intelligence, Dr Foster Posters, Dr Foster Unit: Imperial College London, Drug and Alcohol Problems, Elective Procedures, Emergency Admissions, Emergency Hospital Treatment, Financial Constraints, Financial Context, Financial Difficulties, Financial Incentives, Financial Performance, Financial Pressures, Financial Sustainability in the NHS, General Hospitals, Get Help for Your 44 Year Old Drink and Drug Issue, Health and Social Care Integration, Hip Operations; Cataract Operations, Hospital Beds, Hospital Mortality, Hospital Mortality Rates, Ineffective Operations, Integration, Knee Operations, Measuring Mortality, Mortality, Mortality at the Weekend, Mortality Rates, Mortality Statistics, My Hospital Guide: Efficiency & Mortality, NHS Financial Leadership, Preventable Hospital Mortality, Put Care into Spending and Spending into Care, Quality of Care, Quality of Care at Weekends, Rationing Care, Service Integration, Total Bed-Days in Hospital, Variations in Quality of Care, Weekend Effect, Your Mortality Rate is Your Pulse
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Keogh’s Review into Care and Treatment at Fourteen Hospital Trusts in England (Department of Health / BBC News)
Summary It can have escaped no-one’s attention (in England) that the much-publicised (and much “spun”) Keogh Review has been published. Eleven hospital trusts have been placed into special measures to ensure improvements in patient care because of major failings. Read more: BBC News. … Continue reading
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