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Documenting fall episodes: a scoping review

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
Documentation is an important measure for the management of fall risk because it concentrates the attention of professionals, raises awareness of the existence of fall risk factors, and promotes action to eliminate or minimize them.
Mafalda Pernes, Inês Agostinho, Rafael A. Bernardes, Júlio Belo Fernandes, Júlio Belo Fernandes, Cristina Lavareda Baixinho, Cristina Lavareda Baixinho   +6 more
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Towards performance measurement in reconstructive surgery: a multicentre pilot study of free and pedicled flap procedures.

, 2006
OBJECTIVES: To pilot the acceptability and feasibility of clinical audit in free and pedicled flap reconstruction. To establish a baseline flap failure rate in participating units, so that a sample size calculation could be performed for future national ...
Browne, JP, Cole, RP
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Emergency medical dispatchers’ experiences of using the Medical Priority Dispatch System telephone triage to identify maternity emergencies: a qualitative focus group study

BMJ Open
Objectives The ambulance service plays a pivotal role in the provision of care in out-of-hospital maternity emergencies. Telephone triage of this patient group is complex and must be sensitive to an emergency situation to prevent unnecessary delays in ...
Rachael Fothergill, Joanna Shaw, Clara Bannister, Ayoola Ariyibi   +3 more
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Clinical Audit

Journal of Head & Neck Physicians and Surgeons, 2016
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Evaluation of the implementation of the alert issued by the UK National Patient Safety Agency on the storage and handling of potassium chloride concentrate solution [PDF]

, 2005
Objectives: To assess the effectiveness of the response of NHS hospital trusts to an alert issued by the National Patient Safety Agency designed to limit the availability of concentrated potassium chloride in hospitals in England and Wales, and to ...
Lankshear, A J, Lowson, K V, Sheldon, T A, Watt, I S, Wright, J   +4 more
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Clinical audit [PDF]

British Dental Journal, 2003
L, Jacobs, L, Surry
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Repeat prescribing of medications: a system-centred risk management model for primary care organisations [PDF]

, 2017
Rationale, aims and objectives: Reducing preventable harm from repeat medication prescriptions is a patient safety priority worldwide. In the United Kingdom, repeat prescriptions items issued has doubled in the last 20 years from 5.8 to 13.3 items ...
Bartlett, Stephen, Bowie, Paul, Dinwoodie, Mark, Man, Shu Ling, Price, Julie, Taylor, Kate   +5 more
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High-flow nasal cannula therapy versus continuous positive airway pressure for non-invasive respiratory support in paediatric critical care: the FIRST-ABC RCTs

Health Technology Assessment
Background Despite the increasing use of non-invasive respiratory support in paediatric intensive care units, there are no large randomised controlled trials comparing two commonly used non-invasive respiratory support modes, continuous positive airway ...
Padmanabhan Ramnarayan, Alvin Richards-Belle, Karen Thomas, Laura Drikite, Zia Sadique, Silvia Moler Zapata, Robert Darnell, Carly Au, Peter J Davis, Izabella Orzechowska, Julie Lester, Kevin Morris, Millie Parke, Mark Peters, Sam Peters, Michelle Saull, Lyvonne Tume, Richard G Feltbower, Richard Grieve, Paul R Mouncey, David Harrison, Kathryn Rowan, ,   +23 more
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Perioperative antibiotic prophylaxis in spinal surgery

SICOT-J, 2021
Study design: Complete audit cycle. Introduction: To highlight the unjustified overuse of perioperative antibiotics in clean non-instrumented lumbar spinal surgeries.
Shawky Abdelgawaad Ahmed, El Sadik Mohammed Hassaan Mohamed, Hassan Khalid Mohammed, El-Sharkawi Mohammad   +3 more
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The iBRA (implant breast reconstruction evaluation) study: protocol for a prospective multi-centre cohort study to inform the feasibility, design and conduct of a pragmatic randomised clinical trial comparing new techniques of implant-based breast reconstruction. [PDF]

, 2016
BACKGROUND: Implant-based breast reconstruction (IBBR) is the most commonly performed reconstructive procedure in the UK. The introduction of techniques to augment the subpectoral pocket has revolutionised the procedure, but there is a lack of high ...
Barnes, NL, Blazeby, JM, Branford, OA, Breast Reconstruction Research Collaborative, Conroy, EJ, Cutress, RI, Gardiner, MD, Holcombe, C, Jain, A, McEvoy, K, Mills, N, Mylvaganam, S, Potter, S, Skillman, JM, Teasdale, EM, Thrush, S, Whisker, LJ, Williamson, PR   +17 more
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