February 2020 QI Evidence Update

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This post contains all of the articles in the February 2020 QI Evidence Update. These are searchable using the search bar.

Improvement 

• ICU admission decision support tool showed promise but was rarely used (NIHR Signal, Feb 2020)

• NHS health check attendance improves with changes to the invitation letter (NIHR Signal, Feb 2020)

• Leading with empathy: case study from East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust (NHSE/I, Feb 2020)

• Context, complexity and process in the implementation of evidence-based innovation: a realist informed review (BMC Health Services Research, Feb 2020)

• A systematic review exploring the content and outcomes of interventions to improve psychological safety, speaking up and voice behaviour (BMC Health Services Research, Feb 2020)

• Unpacking organizational readiness for change: an updated systematic review and content analysis of assessments (BMC Health Services Research, Feb 2020)

• Defining sustainability in practice: views from implementing real-world innovations in health care (BMC Health Services Research, Feb 2020)

• Innovating for improved healthcare (RAND Corporation, Jan 2020)

Patient Experience & Engagement

• What matters to people using A&E (Healthwatch, Feb 2020)

• Picture books on prescription (The Guardian, Feb 2020)

• Moving beyond project-specific patient and public involvement in research (Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, Jan 2020)

• Anonymity, veracity and power in online patient feedback: A quantitative and qualitative analysis of staff responses to patient comments on the ‘Care Opinion’ platform in Scotland (Digital Health, Jan 2020)

• How to … a series of guides, toolkits and resources for patient and public involvement (Wessex Voices, undated)

Efficiency & Planning

• Finding the evidence: Coronavirus (PHE Knowledge and Library Services Team, Feb 2020)

• Infographics: Fair shares – A guide to NHS Allocations (NHSE/I, Feb 2020)

• Thinking differently about commissioning: learning from new approaches to local planning (Kings Fund, Feb 2020)

• What are health inequalities? (Kings Fund, Feb 2020)

• Government announces digital hospital-to-pharmacy referral service to cut hospital readmissions (The Pharmaceutical Journal, Feb 2020)

• Rebuilding our NHS: why it’s time to invest (NHS Providers, Feb 2020)

• ‘Handing over to the patient’: A FRAM analysis of transitional care (Applied Ergonomics via Patient Experience Library, Jan 2020)

• NHS financial management and sustainability (National Audit Office, Jan 2020)

Technology

• New tech allowing district nurses to digitally monitor wounds (Nursing Times, Feb 2020)

• Skin cancer apps ‘cannot be relied upon for accurate results’, study finds (Digital Health, Feb 2020)

• NHS launches temperature-triggered bus shelter ad campaign (Marketing Communication News, Feb 2020)

• North Lincolnshire lung patients first in UK to be offered ‘virtual rehab’ (Digital Health, Feb 2020)

• The Benefits of using Video in healthcare (Health Tech Digital, Feb 2020)

• Text messaging support helps smokers quit, but apps not yet shown to work (NIHR Signal, Feb 2020)

• Impact of online or app-based assessment for urgent health problems largely unclear (NIHR Signal, Feb 2020)

• How-to guide: non face-to-face clinics (UCL Partners, Jan 2020)