Improving the Quality of Weekend Medical Handover at a London Teaching Hospital

"A new weekend handover pro forma modelled on RCP guidance can improve the quality of information provided to the weekend team. This can help the on-call team to manage the weekend more effectively and safely. A Friday WR [ward round] sheet can also improve the availability of thorough patient summaries in the notes in the event that someone needs to be reviewed unexpectedly over the weekend."

"Chase CRP", "Review patient": Improving the Quality of Weekend Medical Handover at a London Teaching Hospital
A Saifuddin, L Magee, R Barrett
BMJ Quality Improvement Reports 2015;4: doi:10.1136/bmjquality.u201656.w1919

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The Global Comparators project: international comparison of 30-day in-hospital mortality by day of the week

"We show that mortality outcomes for our sample vary within each country and per day of the week in agreement with previous studies of the ‘weekend effect’."

The Global Comparators project: international comparison of 30-day in-hospital mortality by day of the week
M Ruiz, A Bottle, PP Aylin
BMJ Quality and Safety 2015;24:492-504 doi:10.1136/bmjqs-2014-003467

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Improving medical handover at the weekend

"we found that a structured, well organised weekend handover meeting together with an effective electronic handover system improves the quality of medical weekend handover."

Improving medical handover at the weekend: a quality improvement project
E Michael, C Patel
BMJ Quality Improvement Reports 2015;4: doi:10.1136/bmjquality.u207153.w2899

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Is cost effectiveness sustained after weekend inpatient rehabilitation?

"Our previous work showed that providing additional rehabilitation on a Saturday was cost effective in the short term from the perspective of the health service provider. This study aimed to evaluate if providing additional rehabilitation on a Saturday was cost effective at 12 months"

Is cost effectiveness sustained after weekend inpatient rehabilitation? 12 month follow up from a randomized controlled trial
N Kareem Brusco, JJ Watts, N Shields, NF Taylor
BMC Health Services Research 2015, 15:165  doi:10.1186/s12913-015-0822-3

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BMA Position Paper: 7-day services

"We set out in this paper, what we understand to be the various drivers for the move to more 7-day services, what this means in practical terms, particularly in relation to doctors and their ability to provide high quality patient care, and where the BMA is positioned."

BMA Position Paper: 7-day services
British Medical Association
October 2013

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