October 2024 QI Evidence Update

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This post contains all of the articles in the October 2024 QI Evidence Update. These are searchable using the search bar.

Quality Improvement

• Integrating research evidence into virtual healthcare service programming: a quality improvement analysis of healthcare utilization and series of rapid umbrella reviews (BMC Digital Health, September 2024)

• Improving delirium assessments in acute senior health: A quality improvement project for care of the older person (BMC Geriatrics, September 2024)

• Exploring the use of social network analysis methods in process improvement within healthcare organizations: a scoping review (BMC Health Services Research, September 2024)

• Learning experiences from an online QI fellowship programme during COVID-19 – a qualitative study (BMC Health Services Research, September 2024)

• Toward a roadmap for sustainable lean adoption in hospitals: a Delphi study (BMC Health Services Research, September 2024)

• Lean Six Sigma quality improvement approach to implement clinical practice guidelines for prescribing opiates for chronic pain in a primary care setting (BMJ Open Quality, September 2024)

• Standardizing Multidisciplinary Case Conferences and Improving Communication Between Referring Physicians and Radiologists: A Quality Improvement Initiative (Canadian Association of Radiologists Journal, September 2024)

• Improvement in antibacterial use in intensive care units from Argentina: A quality improvement collaborative process evaluation using Normalization Process Theory (Infection, Disease and Heath, September 2024)

• Swedish quality: a historical perspective and reflections for the future (International Journal of Lean Six Sigma, September 2024)

• Enhancing Digital Health Awareness and mHealth Competencies in Medical Education: Proof-of-Concept Study and Summative Process Evaluation of a Quality Improvement Project (JMIR Medical Education, September 2024)

• Changing practice in cystic fibrosis: Implementing objective medication adherence data at every consultation, a learning health system and quality improvement collaborative (Learning Health Systems, September 2024)

• Podcast: Leading Improvement in Health and Care – Black Maternity Matters (NHS Confederation, September 2024)

• Implementation of a Quality Improvement Learning Collaborative to Support Implementation of the 2016 CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain: Case Study from Nurse-Led Clinics (Pain Management Nursing, September 2024)

• A Quality Improvement Project Aimed at Reducing Patient Falls in Ambulatory Clinics (Patient Safety, September 2024)

  
  

Patients & people

• What does ‘safe care’ mean in the context of community-based mental health services? A qualitative exploration of the perspectives of service users, carers, and healthcare providers in England (BMC Health Services Research September 2024)

• The wisdom of elders: a new patient experience survey for older patients could tell us how to fix our emergency departments for everyone (Emergency Medicine Journal, September 2024)

• Patient and public involvement in healthcare: a systematic mapping review of systematic reviews – identification of current research and possible directions for future research (BMJ Open, September 2024)

• Patients’ experiences with ‘sludge’ (administrative burden) in the cancer screening process and its relationship with screening completion, experience and health system distrust (Family Medicine and Community Health, September 2024)

Integrated care & strategy

• Independent investigation of the National Health Service in England (Department of Health and Social Care, September 2024)

• Strengthening clinical leadership and management: Lessons from our research in the UK and US (Health Foundation, September 2024)

• AI in healthcare: navigating the noise (NHS Confederation, September 2024)

• The state of integrated care systems 2023/24: tackling today while building for tomorrow (NHS Confederation, September 2024)

• Just About Managing: The Role of Effective Management and Leadership in Improving NHS Performance and Productivity (Policy Exchange, September 2024)

• The management mission: how better leaders improve public services (Social Market Foundation, September 2024)

• The NHS is in ‘serious trouble’ and needs major reform – here are the pitfalls the government must avoid (The Conversation, September 2024)

  
  

Population health & prevention 

• The State of Health and Care of Older People in England 2024 (Age UK, September 2024)

• How costing teams are helping to reduce health inequalities (HFMA, September 2024)

• Our greatest asset: the final report of the IPPR Commission on Health and Prosperity (Institute for Public Policy Research, September 2024)

• Improving our nation’s health: a whole-of-government approach to tackling the causes of long-term sickness and economic inactivity (NHS Confederation, September 2024)

• What are the enablers for improving outcomes and reducing inequalities in maternal and neonatal care? (NHS Providers, September 2024)

• Personalised prevention in England (The Health Foundation, September 2024)

• Tackling health inequalities: seven priorities for the NHS (The Kings Fund, September 2024)