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Hotly Debated Weekend Effect May Have Been A Statistical Mirage? (Journal of Health Services Research and Policy / BBC News / Lancet / BMJ)

Posted on May 7, 2016 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary Research does not take place in a socio-political vacuum. The ongoing junior doctors’ dispute has supplied fertile ground for allegations of “spin” and politically-motivated distortion in the interpretation of the so-called “weekend effect”, and raises questions concerning the planned … Continue reading →

Quality of Death Index: UK End-Of-Life Care Second To None? (BBC News / EIU / NHS England / CQC / National Palliative and End of Life Care Partnership)

Posted on October 7, 2015 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary A comparative study of palliative care across 80 countries by the Economist Intelligence Unit has declared that end-of-life care in the UK can be ranked the best in the world. The UK was ranked first due to comprehensive national … Continue reading →

Stroke Mortality and Weekend Working (BBC News / PLoS Medicine)

Posted on August 20, 2014 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary A recent study indicates that stroke survival is associated with the number of nurses available at weekends, but not the frequency of doctors’ ward rounds. The importance of the so-called “weekend effect” is widely recognised across many areas of … Continue reading →

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Information Governance and the Delayed Care.Data Programme (BBC News)

Posted on April 19, 2014 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary Dame Fiona Caldicott, Chair of the Independent Information Governance Oversight Panel (IIGOP) which advises the NHS and ministers on the handling of patient information, has commented that the currently delayed care.data programme could have been planned better. Full Text Link … Continue reading →

The Organisation of Stroke Services, Process of Care, and Mortality in England (BMJ)

Posted on July 8, 2013 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The authors investigated the relationships between the organisation of hospital stroke services, care quality and 30 day mortality in patients admitted with acute ischaemic stroke. Over one hundred hospitals in England within the Stroke Improvement National Audit Programme and 2010 … Continue reading →

Posted in Acute Hospitals, For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), National, Quick Insights, Standards, Stroke, UK | Tagged 2010 Sentinel Stroke Audit, Acute Ischaemic Stroke, and Antiplatelet Therapy and Adequate Fluid and Nutrition for First 72 Hours, BMJ, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, Hospital Mortality, Ischaemic Stroke, King’s College London: Division of Health and Social Care Research, Mortality, Mortality Rates, Mortality Statistics, National Institute for Health Research Comprehensive Biomedical Research Centre, Nutrition Screening and Formal Swallow Assessment Within 72 Hours, Organisation of Stroke Services, Review by Stroke Consultant Within 24 Hours of Admission, Royal College of Physicians, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust, Sentinel Stroke Audit, Stroke Care Bundles, Stroke Improvement National Audit Programme, Stroke: Process of Care, University of Manchester MAHSC | Leave a comment

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