Standardizing Patient Outcomes Measurement

"If we’re to unlock the potential of value-based health care for driving improvement, outcomes measurement must accelerate. That means committing to measuring a minimum sufficient set of outcomes for every major medical condition — with well-defined methods for their collection and risk adjustment — and then standardizing those sets nationally and globally."

Standardizing Patient Outcomes Measurement
ME Porter, S Larsson, TH Lee
New England Journal of Medicine 2016; 374:504-506 DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1511701

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Improving patient outcomes with technology and social media in paediatric diabetes

"The digital initiatives at Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust provide strong evidence that the effective use of information technology and social media can significantly improve patient outcomes."

Improving patient outcomes with technology and social media in paediatric diabetes
S May Ng
BMJ Quality Improvement Reports 2015;4: doi:10.1136/bmjquality.u209396.w3846

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Impact of Inpatient Harms on Hospital Finances and Patient Clinical Outcomes

"This all-cause harm safety study indicates that inpatient harm has negative financial outcomes for hospitals and negative clinical outcomes for patients."

Impact of Inpatient Harms on Hospital Finances and Patient Clinical Outcomes
L Adler et al.
2015, Journal of Patient Safety, doi: 10.1097/PTS.0000000000000171

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Advancing the science of measurement of diagnostic errors in healthcare: the Safer Dx framework

"We posit that the Safer Dx framework can be used by a variety of stakeholders including researchers, clinicians, health care organizations and policymakers, to stimulate both retrospective and more proactive measurement of diagnostic errors. The feedback and learning that would result will help develop subsequent interventions that lead to safer diagnosis, improved value of health care delivery and improved patient outcomes."

Advancing the science of measurement of diagnostic errors in healthcare: the Safer Dx framework
H Singh, DF Sittig
BMJ Quality and Safety 2015;24:103-110 doi:10.1136/bmjqs-2014-003675

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Health literacy: health professionals’ understandings and their perceptions of barriers

"This study suggests that health professionals have a limited understanding of health literacy and of the consequences of low health literacy for their Indigenous patients."

Health literacy: health professionals’ understandings and their perceptions of barriers that Indigenous patients encounter
M Lambert, J Luke, B Downey, S Crengle, M Kelaher, S Reid, J Smylie
BMC Health Services Research 2014, 14:614  doi:10.1186/s12913-014-0614-1

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Do large-scale hospital and system-wide interventions improve patient outcomes

"Common findings show the difficulty of introducing large-scale interventions, and that effective leadership and clinical champions, adequate financial and educational resources, and dedicated promotional activities appear to be common factors in successful system-wide change."

Do large-scale hospital and system-wide interventions improve patient outcomes: a systematic review
R Clay-Williams, H Nosrati, FC Cunningham, K Hillman, J Braithwaite
BMC Health Services Research 2014, 14:369

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Team-training in healthcare

"Our synthesis suggests that there is moderate to high-quality evidence that team-training can positively impact healthcare team processes and, in turn, clinical processes and patient outcomes. These effects have been demonstrated across a variety of acute care areas."

Team-training in healthcare: a narrative synthesis of the literature
SJ Weaver, SM Dy, MA Rosen
BMJ Quality and Safety, 2014; 23: 359-372

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The NHS England business plan for 2014-15 to 2016-17

"The NHS England business plan sets out how NHS England will support commissioning and drive improvements in patient outcomes."

Putting Patients First: The NHS England business plan for 2014-15 to 2016-17
NHS England
April 2014

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Leading health care innovation

This is a collaboration of the editors of the Harvard Business Review and the New England Journal of Medicine, providing an eight-week online forum devoted to helping leaders, managers, and others in health care increase value by improving patient outcomes and reducing costs. Find out more here.

Associations with workload and perceived quality of care

"There is strong evidence to show that lower nurse staffing levels in hospitals are associated with worse patient outcomes."

‘Care left undone’ during nursing shifts: associations with workload and perceived quality of care
JE Ball, T Murrells AM Rafferty, E Morrow, P Griffiths
BMJ Quality and Safety Online First, published on 29 July 2013

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eGEMs (Generating Evidence & Methods to improve patient outcomes)

"eGEMs is an open access journal focused on using electronic clinical data to advance research and quality improvement, with the overall goal of improving patient and community outcomes."

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