Improving antibiotic prescribing practice in a respiratory ward

"This project aims to improve compliance with documentation of indication and duration of antibiotic use in line with our local antibiotic prescribing guidelines. Post-intervention results were encouraging with compliance rates increasing from 24% to 94% for indication, and from 39% to 71% for duration."

Antimicrobial stewardship: Improving antibiotic prescribing practice in a respiratory ward
JM Yeo
BMJ Quality Improvement Reports 2016;5: doi:10.1136/bmjquality.u206491.w3570

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Costing report: menopause diagnosis and management

"This report focuses on the recommendations that are considered to have the greatest resource impact nationally, and therefore need the most additional resources to implement or can potentially generate the biggest savings. They are:

- decrease the number of follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) tests in women 
- increase use of transdermal hormone replacement therapy (HRT). "

Costing report: menopause diagnosis and management 
Implementing the NICE guideline on menopause (NG23)
NICE
November 2015

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Implementing the NICE guideline on social care of older people with social care needs and multiple long-term conditions

"The guideline covers how health and social care for older people with multiple long-term conditions should be planned and delivered. It addresses how those responsible for commissioning, managing and providing health and social care should work together to deliver safe, high-quality services."

Costing statement:Implementing the NICE guideline on social care of older people with social care needs and multiple long-term conditions (NG22)
NICE
November 2015

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Implementing the NICE guideline on acute heart failure

"Implementation of the guideline should lead to improved management of acute heart failure and may lead to the following savings and benefits..."

Costing statement: Acute heart failure: Implementing the NICE guideline on acute heart failure (CG187)
NICE
October 2014

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The role of interpersonal communication in the process of knowledge mobilization

"Findings suggest that interpersonal communication is associated with knowledge mobilization and highlight how the network structure could be improved for further dissemination efforts." 

The role of interpersonal communication in the process of knowledge mobilization within a community-based organization: a network analysis
HL Gainforth, AE Latimer-Cheung, P Athanasopoulos, S Moore, KA Martin Ginis
Implementation Science, 2014, 9: 59

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Practice facilitation within primary care settings

"Practice facilitation has a moderately robust effect on evidence based guideline adoption within primary care."

Systematic review and meta-analysis of practice facilitation within primary care settings
NB Baskerville, C Liddy, W Hogg
Annals of Family Medicine, 2012, 10(1):63-74

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