Implementing the NICE guideline on Transition between inpatient hospital settings and community or care home settings for adults with social care needs

"Overall, it is expected that implementing the guideline will be cost saving. Implementing the guideline is likely to have resource implications (both costs and savings) for health and social care commissioners and for providers"

Implementing the NICE guideline on Transition between inpatient hospital settings and community or care home settings for adults with social care needs (NG27) 
NICE (Costing statement)
December 2015

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Hypoglycaemia monitoring in a medical receiving ward

"The study successfully demonstrated that simple measures can significantly improve the quality care of inpatient diabetic patients in relation to hypoglycaemia management."

Hypoglycaemia monitoring in a medical receiving ward
R Ellis
BMJ Quality Improvement Reports 2015;4: doi:10.1136/bmjquality.u207104.w2859


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Improving smoking cessation policy by assessing user demand for an inpatient smoking cessation service

"The intervention improved rates of documentation of smoking status, cessation advice, and offer of nicotine replacement therapy and referral for inpatients on two psychiatric wards."

Improving smoking cessation policy by assessing user demand for an inpatient smoking cessation service in adult psychiatric wards
K Liu, A Creamer
BMJ Quality Improvement Reports 2015;4: doi:10.1136/bmjquality.u207323.w2933

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National Diabetes Inpatient Audit 2013 national summary

"The National Diabetes Inpatient Audit is a snapshot audit of diabetes inpatient care in England and Wales. The audit is set out to answer the following questions:

• Did diabetes management minimise the risk of avoidable complications?
• Did harm result from the inpatient stay?
• Was patient experience of the inpatient stay favourable?
• Has the quality of care and patient feedback changed...?"

National Diabetes Inpatient Audit 2013 national summary

Health and Social Care Information Centre

2014

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Safely and effectively reducing inpatient length of stay

"While various interventions have been proposed to improve the efficiency and quality of inpatient care, with inconsistent results when rigorously evaluated, the General Internal Medicine Care Transformation Initiative did decrease length of stay for hospitalised GIM patients above and beyond existing secular trends in teaching hospitals without increasing post-discharge adverse events."

Safely and effectively reducing inpatient length of stay: a controlled study of the General Internal Medicine Care Transformation Initiative
FA McAlister, JA Bakal, SR Majumdar, S Dean, RS Padwal, N Kassam, M Bacchus, A Colbourne
BMJ Quality and Safety, 2014; 23: 446-456

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Draft for consultation: safe staffing for adult inpatient nursing

"This guideline is primarily for use by NHS provider organisations or others who provide or commission services for NHS patients. It is aimed at healthcare boards, hospital managers, ward managers, healthcare professionals and commissioners. Those responsible and accountable for staffing for nursing in adult inpatient wards in acute hospitals at organisational and at a ward level should take this guideline fully into account when exercising their professional judgement."

Feedback is being sought on this guideline until 6th June 2014.

Safe staffing for nursing in adult inpatient wards in acute hospitals: NICE safe staffing guideline 
Draft for consultation, 12 May to 6 June 2014
May 2014

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Provider-level risk-adjusted quality measurement for inpatient rehabilitation facilities

"This report should be of interest to researchers involved either in inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRF) or the development of IRF quality reports or in outcomes studies that require risk adjustment."

Provider-level risk-adjusted quality measurement for inpatient rehabilitation facilities
AW Dick, PJ Huckfeldt, H Liu, H Yu, A Mehrotra, SL Lovejoy, JS Ashwood
RAND Corporation
2012

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Inpatient care for people with diabetes

"Long-term complications arising from sub-optimal care can impose further costs on individuals and their carers, on the health and social care system and on the public sector more generally."

Inpatient care for people with diabetes: the economic case for change
M Kerr
Insight Health Economics
November 2011

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