How-to Guide: Prevent Adverse Drug Events

"This How-to Guide describes key evidence-based care components to prevent adverse drug events (ADEs) by implementing medication reconciliation at all transitions in care (at admission, transfer, and discharge), describes how to implement these interventions, and recommends measures to gauge improvement." 

How-to Guide: Prevent Adverse Drug Events (Medication Reconciliation)
Institute for Healthcare Improvement
2011

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How-to Guide: Prevent Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection

"This How-to Guide describes key evidence-based care components for preventing catheter-associated urinary tract infections, describes how to implement these interventions, and recommends measures to gauge improvement."

How-to Guide: Prevent Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection
Institute for Healthcare Improvement
2011

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How-to Guide: Deploy Rapid Response Teams

"This How-to Guide describes key evidence-based care components for Rapid Response Teams, describes how to implement these interventions, and recommends measures to gauge improvement."

How-to Guide: Deploy Rapid Response Teams
Institute for Healthcare Improvement
2008

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Constructive comfort: accelerating change in the NHS

"To achieve change at the pace and scale now needed in the NHS requires much careful thinking about the mechanisms employed to effect change. In this report we have focused how best to design national policy on the NHS to accelerate improvements to health care."

Constructive comfort: accelerating change in the NHS 
C Allcock, F Dormon, R Taunt, J Dixon
February 2015

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What to expect when you're evaluating healthcare improvement

"Although valuable, evaluation is often complicated by tensions and friction between evaluators, implementers and other stakeholders. Drawing on the literature, we suggest that these tensions can arise from a lack of shared understanding of the goals of the evaluation; confusion about roles, relationships and responsibilities; data burdens; issues of data flows and confidentiality; the discomforts of being studied and the impact of disappointing or otherwise unwelcome results. We present a possible approach to managing these tensions "

What to expect when you're evaluating healthcare improvement: a concordat approach to managing collaboration and uncomfortable realities
L Brewster, EL Aveling, G Martin, C Tarrant, M Dixon-Woods
BMJ Quality and Safety 2015;24:318-324 doi:10.1136/bmjqs-2014-003732

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