Service user engagement and health service reconfiguration

"Patients and the public could be engaged through a wide variety of methods. In selecting which methods to employ locally, decision-makers should take into account the nature of the local population and of the proposed service changes. Problems often arose because decision-makers paid insufficient attention to issues considered important by the public."

Service user engagement and health service reconfiguration: a rapid evidence synthesis 
J Dalton, D Chambers, M Harden, A Street, G Parker, A Eastwood
Health Services and Delivery Research 2015;3(17)

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Exploring mentorship as a strategy to build capacity for knowledge translation research and practice

"Despite widespread focus on quality in the healthcare sector, performance reports highlight the need to improve the organization, delivery, and outcomes of healthcare services and programs [1]. Knowledge translation (KT) refers to an approach for improving healthcare and its outcomes by promoting and supporting the use of research in clinical, management, and policy-level decision-making "

Exploring mentorship as a strategy to build capacity for knowledge translation research and practice: a scoping systematic review

AR Gagliardi, F Webster, L Perrier, M Bell, S Straus

Implementation Science 2014, 9:122

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Improving handover of patient care using a new weekend proforma with a focus on ceiling of care

"Results demonstrate that introducing Friday ward round proformas for medical patients improves communication between weekday and on-call teams, highlights current escalation of care plans, and leads to faster decision-making."

Improving handover of patient care using a new weekend proforma with a focus on ceiling of care
C Yusuf Akhunbay-Fudge, I Buss, A Ward, C Snead, M Cole, A Coulter
BMJ Quality Improvement Reports 2014;3

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Determinants of treatment plan implementation in multidisciplinary team meetings for patients with chronic diseases

"Greater multidisciplinarity is not necessarily associated with more effective decision making. Explicit goals and procedures are also crucial. Decision implementation should be routinely monitored to ensure the equitable provision of care."

Determinants of treatment plan implementation in multidisciplinary team meetings for patients with chronic diseases: a mixed-methods study
R Raine et al.
BMJ Quality and Safety 2014;23:867-876

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Strategies to improve the efficiency and utility of multidisciplinary team meetings in urology cancer care

"This study is the first to explore which areas of urology MDT working healthcare professionals perceive to be valuable, and how MDT working might be improved in terms of effectiveness and efficiency."

Strategies to improve the efficiency and utility of multidisciplinary team meetings in urology cancer care: a survey study
BW Lamb, RT Jalil, N Sevdalis, C Vincent, JSA Green
BMC Health Services Research 2014, 14:377

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Hospital discharge of the elderly - functions, variability and performance-shaping factors

"Precision issues related to (1) decision-making criteria concerning the medical fitness decision and appropriate level of care, (2) quality of discharge planning, (3) degree of patient involvement, and (4) quality of information transfer."

Hospital discharge of the elderly-an observational case study of functions, variability and performance-shaping factors
K Laugaland, K Aase, J Waring
BMC Health Services Research 2014, 14:365

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Prioritising health service innovation investments using public preferences

"Discrete choice approaches can help policy makers, those designing innovations, and decision-makers in health services make more of the public’s views on how services invest their money."

Prioritising health service innovation investments using public preferences: a discrete choice experiment
S Erdem, C Thompson
BMC Health Services Research 2014, 14:360

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NICE Physical activity return on investment tool

"The physical activity return on investment tool has been developed to help decision making in physical activity programme planning at local and sub-national levels."

Physical activity return on investment tool
NICE
September 2014

Access the tool and all of the resources here.

Right Care essential reading: Programme budgeting and marginal analysis

"Before starting marginal analysis, payers and commissioners will expect clinicians to examine their own budgets. Payers and commissioners will want assurance that: the entire programme budget is allocated optimally to the different conditions within that programme; after allocation the service achieves high value from the resource allocation.

Right Care essential reading: Programme budgeting and marginal analysis (PBMA)
N Pearce-Smith, M Gray
NHS Right Care
July 2014
Access the reading list here.

RAPID Outcome Mapping Approach: a guide to policy engagement and influence

"ROMA is an approach to improving your policy engagement processes, to influence change. It comprises a suite of tools that any organisation can use at any stage in their policy engagement process" 

ROMA: a guide to policy engagement and influence
Research and Policy in Development
Overseas Development Institute
2014

Find out more and access the guide here.

7 Day Services self assessment tool

"The 7 day self-assessment tool is an evolving development. Its aim is to enable organisations to baseline their provision of seven day services in order to understand local needs and support local decision making, by assessing your current level of seven day service provision, using nationally agreed definitions and the seven day services national clinical standards."

7 Day Services self assessment tool
National Clinical Analysis and Specialised Applications Team, NHS Improving Quality

Access the tool and all the resources here.

Avoiding low-value care (video)

"The enormous cost of health care in the United States, driven in part by the fee-for-service payment system, has inspired new efforts to assess the true value of commonly provided services. When a service is widely recognized as providing little or no benefit, what should be done to reduce its use?"

Perspective roundtable: avoiding low-value care
AA Gawande, CH Colla, SD Halpern, BE Landon
New England Journal of Medicine, 2014, 370: e21

Watch the video discussion here.

Decision boxes for clinicians to support evidence-based practice and shared decision making

"Decision Boxes aim to prepare the clinician to communicate the risks and benefits of the available options to the patient so they can make an informed decision together."

Decision boxes for clinicians to support evidence-based practice and shared decision making: the user experience
A Giguere, et al.
Implementation Science, 2012, 7:72

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