Enhanced recovery clinical education programme improves quality of post-operative care

"The Enhanced Recovery (ER) clinical education programme improved quality of post-operative care, leading to reduced length of stay with no increase in 28 day readmission rates."

Enhanced recovery clinical education programme improves quality of post-operative care
R McDonald
BMJ Quality Improvement Reports 2015;4: doi:10.1136/bmjquality.u208370.w3387

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Mortality meetings in geriatric medicine: strategies for improvement

"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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A patient-centered network approach to multidisciplinary-guideline development

"Guideline development and uptake are still suboptimal; they focus on clinical aspects of diseases rather than on improving the integration of care. We used a patient-centered network approach to develop five harmonized guidelines (one multidisciplinary and four monodisciplinary) around clinical pathways in fertility care."

A patient-centered network approach to multidisciplinary-guideline development: a process evaluation
EME Den Breejen, MAHW Hilbink, WLDM Nelen, TJ Wiersma, JS Burgers, JAM Kremer, RPMG Hermens
Implementation Science, 2014, 9: 68

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How quality improvement collaboratives shape practice change

"QICs offer a potentially powerful way of disseminating health care innovations through enhanced strategies for learning and change."

More black box to explore: How quality improvement collaboratives shape practice change
EK Shaw, SM Chase, J Howard, PA Nutting, BF Crabtree
Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, 25(2):149-157

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Bringing networks to life

"This document aims to help all paediatricians across the UK contribute to the development of effective networked care and thus deliver the highest quality care to their patients."

Bringing networks to life: an RCPCH guide to implementing clinical networks
Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health
March 2012

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