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Ensuring comparisons of health-care providers are fair: development and validation of risk prediction models for critically ill patients

Health Services and Delivery Research, 2015
Background: National clinical audit has a key role in ensuring quality in health care. When comparing outcomes between providers, it is essential to take the differing case mix of patients into account to make fair comparisons.
David A Harrison, Paloma Ferrando-Vivas, Jason Shahin, Kathryn M Rowan   +3 more
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Development and pilot of clinical performance indicators for English ambulance services [PDF]

, 2010
Introduction: There is a compelling need to develop clinical performance indicators for ambulance services in order to move from indicators based primarily on response times and in light of the changing clinical demands on services.
Black, Sarah, Donohoe, Rachel, National Ambulance Clinical Audit Steering Group, Shaw, Deborah, Siriwardena, Aloysius, Stephenson, John   +5 more
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Family-Reported Experiences Evaluation (FREE) study: a mixed-methods study to evaluate families’ satisfaction with adult critical care services in the NHS

Health Services and Delivery Research, 2015
Background: To improve care it is necessary to feed back experiences of those receiving care. Of patients admitted to intensive care units (ICUs), approximately one-quarter die, and few survivors recollect their experiences, so family members have a ...
Stephen E Wright, Emma Walmsley, Sheila E Harvey, Emily Robinson, Paloma Ferrando-Vivas, David A Harrison, Ruth R Canter, Elaine McColl, Annette Richardson, Michael Richardson, Lisa Hinton, Daren K Heyland, Kathryn M Rowan   +12 more
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Assessing the Feasibility of Retrospective and Prospective Clinical Audit in Farm Animal Veterinary Practice

Veterinary Sciences, 2021
As a quality improvement tool, clinical audit has been extensively described in the medical literature. There is scant literature on the use of clinical audit in the farm animal veterinary setting.
Katie Waine, Constance White, Rachel S. Dean, Chris Hudson, Jonathan N. Huxley, Marnie L. Brennan   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Prototype of running clinical trials in an untrustworthy environment using blockchain. [PDF]

, 2019
Monitoring and ensuring the integrity of data within the clinical trial process is currently not always feasible with the current research system.
Bhattacharya, Sanchita, Butte, Atul J, Wong, Daniel R   +2 more
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Pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments and outcomes for new-onset atrial fibrillation in ICU patients: the CAFE scoping review and database analyses

Health Technology Assessment, 2021
Background: New-onset atrial fibrillation occurs in around 10% of adults treated in an intensive care unit. New-onset atrial fibrillation may lead to cardiovascular instability and thromboembolism, and has been independently associated with increased ...
Jonathan Bedford, Laura Drikite, Mark Corbett, James Doidge, Paloma Ferrando-Vivas, Alistair Johnson, Kim Rajappan, Paul Mouncey, David Harrison, Duncan Young, Kathryn Rowan, Peter Watkinson   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Spectrophotometry for cerebrospinal fluid pigment analysis [PDF]

, 2006
The use of spectrophotometry for the analysis of the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is reviewed. The clinically relevant CSF pigments--oxyhemoglobin and bilirubin--are introduced and discussed with regard to clinical differential diagnosis and potentially ...
Keir, G., Petzold, A., Sharpe, L.T.
core   +1 more source

Impact on maternity professionals of novel approaches to clinical audit feedback [PDF]

, 2007
We compared three approaches to feedback of clinical audit findings relating to miscarriage in 15 Scottish maternity services (printed report alone; report plus Action Planning Letter; report plus face-to-face Facilitated Action Planning).
Cameron, Martin, MacLennan, Graeme Stewart, McCann, S., Penney, G., Walker, Anne   +4 more
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First-line support for assistance in breathing in children: statistical and health economic analysis plan for the FIRST-ABC trial

Trials, 2020
Background The FIRST-ABC trial comprises of two pragmatic, multicentre, parallel groups, non-inferiority randomised clinical trials designed to evaluate the clinical non-inferiority of first-line use of high flow nasal cannula (HFNC) to continuous ...
Izabella Orzechowska, M. Zia Sadique, Karen Thomas, Peter Davis, Kevin P. Morris, Paul R. Mouncey, Mark J. Peters, Alvin Richards-Belle, Lyvonne N. Tume, Padmanabhan Ramnarayan, David A. Harrison   +10 more
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Clinical audit in European radiology: current status and recommendations for improvement endorsed by the European Society of Radiology (ESR)

Insights into Imaging, 2023
Clinical audit is an important quality improvement activity and has significant benefits for patients in terms of enhanced care, safety, experience and outcomes.
David C. Howlett, Paulette Kumi, Roman Kloeckner, Nuria Bargallo, Bettina Baessler, Minerva Becker, Steve Ebdon-Jackson, Alexandra Karoussou-Schreiner, Christian Loewe, Marta Sans Merce, Marta Serrallonga-Mercader, Vasilis Syrgiamiotis, European Society of Radiology   +12 more
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