"Mortality meetings are an essential part of junior doctor training and hospital clinical governance. There is a tendency for these meetings to be poorly organised, poorly focused and poorly attended, especially by disciplines other than doctors. In this improvement project we were able to make our mortality meetings more multidisciplinary and a better learning experience for staff."
Mortality meetings in geriatric medicine: strategies for improvement
J Dunbar, J George
BMJ Quality Improvement Reports 2015;4: doi:10.1136/bmjquality.u202625.w3247
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Showing posts with label geriatric care. Show all posts
Showing posts with label geriatric care. Show all posts
Monday, 23 March 2015
Monday, 3 December 2012
Care for older people
"This research summary sets out projections of public expenditure on social care and continuing health care for people aged 65 or over in England from 2010 to 2022."
Care for older people
R Wittenberg, B Hu, A Comas-Herrera, JL Fernandez
Nuffield Trust
December 2012
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Friday, 23 November 2012
Delay in discharge and its impact on unnecessary hospital bed occupancy
"Elderly patients experiencing acute surgical admission and discharge to community hospitals had prolonged length-of-stay due to significant delays associated with care of the elderly provision."
Delay in discharge and its impact on unnecessary hospital bed occupancy
Majeed MU, et al.
BMC Health Services Research, 2012, 12:410
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Friday, 9 November 2012
The match between institutional elderly care management research and management challenges
"Institutional care management research needs to focus more on challenges in integrated care, productivity, ICT and division of labor."
The match between institutional elderly care management research and management challenges - a systematic literature review
K Kokkonen, S Rissanen, A Hujala
Health Research Policy and Systems, 2012, 10:35
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The Prime Minister's challenge on dementia
"Our ambition is to support wider society to make the change to enable people who have dementia to be able to confidently go about their daily lives safely and free from stigma."
The Prime Minister's challenge on dementia: delivering major improvements in dementia care and research by 2015: a report on progress
Department of Health
November 2012
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