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World Hand Hygiene Day 2024

Posted on April 18, 2024 by joelboggan

World Health Organization World Hand Hygiene Day, 5 May 2024 SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands campaign Promoting knowledge and capacity building on infection prevention and control, including hand hygiene, among health and care workers The World Health Organization’s (WHO) World Hand Hygiene Day has a goal to bring people together and accelerate hand hygiene […]

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Introducing the Top Research Articles of 2023

Posted on March 28, 2024 by joelboggan
Tagged ambulance, analytics, antenatal care, antibiotic prescribing, Avoidable harm, birth, case study, checklist, CheckPOINT, clinical debriefing, clinical practice tool, co-design, cohort study, COVID-19, culture of safety, debriefing, diagnostic error, elder care, Electronic Health Record (EHR), electronic monitoring, emergency care, Emergency Medicine, end of life care, equity, ergonomics, factors, Featured List, featuredlist, fetal monitoring, fidelity, frailty, gender, General practitioners, health equity, health services, health standards, health systems, hospital readmission, human factors, indication-based prescribing, Informed Consent, intellectual disability, labour & delivery, language discordance, MARQUIS2, Maternity, medication, medication reconciliation, mental health, meta-analysis, Mixed-methods, National Health Service, Netherlands, New Zealand, NHS, OFES-CI, Opioid, opioid misuse, outcomes, Patient Safety, population health, prescriptions, qualitative research, Quality Improvement, realist review, safety cases, scoping review, serious harm, sexual health, sexual orientation, social science, STI, structured medication reviews, Surgery, surgical safety, Systematic review, Top, Top Articles, Top20, turnover, United States, visiting, workforceLeave a comment

Call for Papers: Implementation science for healthcare quality and safety

Posted on March 1, 2024 by joelboggan
Tagged Featured List, featuredlist, implementation, implementation science, journal, manuscript, methodologies, methods, original research, Patient Safety, QI reports, Quality Improvement, quality improvement reports, research, Systematic reviewLeave a comment

Improving antiplatelet therapy uptake: lessons from the Scottish experience

Posted on November 30, 2023 by joelboggan
Tagged antiplatelet, cardiovascular health, chronic disease, discharge, Electronic Health Record (EHR), Featured List, featuredlist, health inequities, inequality, medication, medication reconciliation, National Health Service, NHS, pharmacist, pharmacy, quality gap, Quality Improvement, Scotland, secondary prevention, structured medication reviewsLeave a comment

Call for Papers: Striving for equity in the quality and safety of patient care

Posted on November 14, 2023 by joelboggan
Tagged equity, Featured List, featuredlist, health disparities, health inequities, inequality, journal, manuscript, methodologies, methods, original research, Patient Safety, QI reports, Quality Improvement, quality improvement reports, research, Systematic review, ViewpointsLeave a comment

The debriefing toolkit – what are the necessary components?

Posted on September 19, 2023 by joelboggan
Tagged 5Es, acute healthcare, adverse events, b, clinical debriefing, clinical deterioration, communication, debriefing, facilitator, Featured List, featuredlist, Incivility, interprofessional teams, Kirkpatrick, Patient Safety, toolkit, toolsLeave a comment

‘What does a good birth look like for you?’ Reimagining our consent in obstetrics

Posted on July 13, 2023 by joelboggan
Tagged antenatal care, birth, birth plan, birth preferences, ethics, Featured List, featuredlist, Informed Consent, labour & delivery, maternal health, Maternity, midwivery, Netherlands, obstetricsLeave a comment

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World Hand Hygiene Day 2024

Posted on April 18, 2024 by joelboggan
Tagged capacity building, education, Featured, hand hygiene, health systems, healthcare, infection control, infection prevention and control, prevention, WHO, World Health OrganizationLeave a comment

Introducing the Top Research Articles of 2023

Posted on March 28, 2024 by joelboggan
Tagged ambulance, analytics, antenatal care, antibiotic prescribing, Avoidable harm, birth, case study, checklist, CheckPOINT, clinical debriefing, clinical practice tool, co-design, cohort study, COVID-19, culture of safety, debriefing, diagnostic error, elder care, Electronic Health Record (EHR), electronic monitoring, emergency care, Emergency Medicine, end of life care, equity, ergonomics, factors, Featured List, featuredlist, fetal monitoring, fidelity, frailty, gender, General practitioners, health equity, health services, health standards, health systems, hospital readmission, human factors, indication-based prescribing, Informed Consent, intellectual disability, labour & delivery, language discordance, MARQUIS2, Maternity, medication, medication reconciliation, mental health, meta-analysis, Mixed-methods, National Health Service, Netherlands, New Zealand, NHS, OFES-CI, Opioid, opioid misuse, outcomes, Patient Safety, population health, prescriptions, qualitative research, Quality Improvement, realist review, safety cases, scoping review, serious harm, sexual health, sexual orientation, social science, STI, structured medication reviews, Surgery, surgical safety, Systematic review, Top, Top Articles, Top20, turnover, United States, visiting, workforceLeave a comment

Call for Papers: Implementation science for healthcare quality and safety

Posted on March 1, 2024 by joelboggan
Tagged Featured List, featuredlist, implementation, implementation science, journal, manuscript, methodologies, methods, original research, Patient Safety, QI reports, Quality Improvement, quality improvement reports, research, Systematic reviewLeave a comment

Improving antiplatelet therapy uptake: lessons from the Scottish experience

Posted on November 30, 2023 by joelboggan
Tagged antiplatelet, cardiovascular health, chronic disease, discharge, Electronic Health Record (EHR), Featured List, featuredlist, health inequities, inequality, medication, medication reconciliation, National Health Service, NHS, pharmacist, pharmacy, quality gap, Quality Improvement, Scotland, secondary prevention, structured medication reviewsLeave a comment

Call for Papers: Striving for equity in the quality and safety of patient care

Posted on November 14, 2023 by joelboggan
Tagged equity, Featured List, featuredlist, health disparities, health inequities, inequality, journal, manuscript, methodologies, methods, original research, Patient Safety, QI reports, Quality Improvement, quality improvement reports, research, Systematic review, ViewpointsLeave a comment

‘What does a good birth look like for you?’ Reimagining our consent in obstetrics

Posted on July 13, 2023 by joelboggan
Tagged antenatal care, birth, birth plan, birth preferences, ethics, Featured List, featuredlist, Informed Consent, labour & delivery, maternal health, Maternity, midwivery, Netherlands, obstetricsLeave a comment

Top 10 Articles of 2022, #1-5

Posted on May 5, 2023 by joelboggan
Tagged Audit and feedback, Australia, clinical deterioration, clinical practice guidelines, cluster-randomized trial, culture of safety, employee voice, England, Featured List, featuredlist, Frontline staff, Ghana, guidelines, healthcare, healthcare support workers, hospitals, inpatient, LMICs, local context, medication, medication safety, Mortality, multidisciplinary teams, Netherlands, NHS, nurse staffing, Nursing, outcomes, Patient Safety, polypharmacy, PRONTO, Quality Improvement, randomised controlled trial, rapid response systems, resource constraints, seniority, shift 'fill rate', speaking up, structured medication reviews, Surgery, threats, Top10, total hip arthroplasty, total knee arthroplasty, video-reflexive ethnography, vital signs, voicing concerns, workloadLeave a comment

Top 10 articles of 2022, #6-10

Posted on April 16, 2023 by joelboggan
Tagged antenatal care, behaviour, communication, consultation, COVID-19, critical care, digital exclusion, digital technologies, discharge, discrimination, Electronic Health Record (EHR), eye-tracking, Featured List, featuredlist, gender, GP, handoffs, handovers, health disparities, health inequities, inequality, Intensive care unit (ICU), LGBTQ+, medication, medication reconciliation, medication safety, meta-analysis, patient-centred care, pharmacist, pregnancy, qualitative research, Quality Improvement, safety-netting, sexual orientation, stigmatization, Systematic review, tall man lettering, technology, transitions of careLeave a comment

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