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The quality, safety and content of telephone and face-to-face consultations: a comparative study
1 Centre of Population Health Sciences: General Practice Section, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK 2 Tayside Centre for General Practice, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK 3 Centre for Rural ...
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Enabling the implementation of evidence based practice: a conceptual framework.
Royal College of Nursing Institute, Royal College of Nursing, London, UK. The argument put forward in this paper is that successful implementation of research into practice is a function of the ...
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Are more experienced clinicians better able to tolerate uncertainty and manage risks? A vignette study of doctors in three NHS emergency departments in England
Background Risk aversion among junior doctors that manifests as greater intervention (ordering of tests, diagnostic procedures and so on) has been proposed as one of the possible causes for increased ...
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Hindsight bias, outcome knowledge and adaptive learning
The ubiquitous nature of hindsight bias is a cause for concern for those engaged in investigations and retrospective analysis of medical error. Hindsight does not ...
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An exploratory study measuring verbal order content and context
University of Missouri Center for Health Care Quality, Department of Health Management and Informatics, Columbia, Missouri, USA Background: The use of verbal orders, while essential in some healthcare ...
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Toward stronger evidence on quality improvement. Draft publication guidelines: the beginning of a consensus project
In contrast with the primary goals of science, which are to discover and disseminate new knowledge, the primary goal of improvement is to change performance. Unfortunately, scholarly accounts of the ...
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Providing feedback following Leadership WalkRounds is associated with better patient safety culture, higher employee engagement and lower burnout
Background There is a poorly understood relationship between Leadership WalkRounds (WR) and domains such as safety culture, employee engagement, burnout and work-life balance. Methods This ...
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Workforce well-being is workforce readiness: it is time to advance from describing the problem to solving it
‘We need bold, fundamental change that gets at the roots of the burnout crisis.’- US Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy, MD, MBA. The key is understanding what is suboptimal. Their main findings from 124 ...
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Systematic review of clinical debriefing tools: attributes and evidence for use
Correspondence to Dr Emma Claire Phillips, The University of Edinburgh, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, Edinburgh EH16 4SB, UK; e.c.phillips{at}doctors.org.uk Background and objectives ...
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A pragmatics' view of patient identification
Background Patient identification is a central safety critical aspect of healthcare work. Most healthcare activities require identification of patients by healthcare staff, often in connection with ...
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Developing a measure for the appropriateness of prescribing in general practice
1 GKT Concordance Unit, Department of General Practice and Primary Care, Guy’s King’s and St Thomas’ School of Medicine, King’s College London 2 Department of Practice and Policy, The School of ...
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Process evaluation of a tailored multifaceted feedback program to improve the quality of intensive care by using quality indicators
1 Scientific Center for Care and Welfare (Tranzo), Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands 2 Center for Prevention and Health Services Research, National Institute for Public Health and the ...