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Assessing effectiveness and implementation of a perioperative enhanced recovery protocol for children undergoing surgery: study protocol for a prospective, stepped-wedge, cluster, randomized, controlled clinical trial

Trials, 2020
Background Perioperative enhanced recovery protocols (ERPs) have been found to decrease hospital length of stay, in-hospital costs, and complications among adult surgical populations but evidence for pediatric populations is lacking.
Mehul V. Raval, Erin Wymore, Martha-Conley E. Ingram, Yao Tian, Julie K. Johnson, Jane L. Holl   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Does quality improvement improve quality? [PDF]

Future Hospital Journal, 2016
Although quality improvement (QI) is frequently advocated as a way of addressing the problems with healthcare, evidence of its effectiveness has remained very mixed. The reasons for this are varied but the growing literature highlights particular challenges. Fidelity in the application of QI methods is often variable.
Dixon-Woods, Mary, Martin, Graham P
openaire   +2 more sources

Classification, Processing Procedures, and Market Demand of Chinese Biscuits and the Breeding of Special Wheat for Biscuit Making

Journal of Food Quality, 2022
With the improvement of living standards, consumers’ demand for wheat food is gradually diversified. Biscuit, as a kind of convenience food, becomes a consumer’s leisure snack due to its characteristics such as low processing cost, easy-to-carry and ...
Xin Hu, Lejia Hu, Jing Zheng, Junkang Rong   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Low-cost, on-farm intervention to reduce spores in bulk tank raw milk benefits producers, processors, and consumers

Journal of Dairy Science, 2023
: Bacterial spores, which are found in raw milk, can survive harsh processing conditions encountered in dairy manufacturing, including pasteurization and drying.
Rachel L. Evanowski, Sarah I. Murphy, Martin Wiedmann, Nicole H. Martin   +3 more
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Development of a risk assessment model to predict the occurrence of late blowing defect in Gouda cheese and evaluate potential intervention strategies

Journal of Dairy Science, 2022
: Late blowing defect (LBD) is an important spoilage issue in semi-hard cheese, with the outgrowth of Clostridium tyrobutyricum spores during cheese aging considered to be the primary cause.
C. Qian, N.H. Martin, M. Wiedmann, A. Trmčić   +3 more
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Microbial Fermentation and Its Role in Quality Improvement of Fermented Foods

, 2020
Fermentation processes in foods often lead to changes in nutritional and biochemical quality relative to the starting ingredients. Fermented foods comprise very complex ecosystems consisting of enzymes from raw ingredients that interact with the ...
Ranjana Sharma, Prakrati Garg, Pradeep Kumar, S. Bhatia, S. Kulshrestha   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Rapid implementation of virtual clinics due to COVID-19: report and early evaluation of a quality improvement initiative

BMJ Open Quality, 2020
Background The COVID-19 outbreak has placed the National Health Service under significant strain. Social distancing measures were introduced in the UK in March 2020 and virtual consultations (via telephone or video call) were identified as a potential ...
A. Gilbert, Joe C T Billany, R. Adam, Luke Martin, Rebecca Tobin, Shiv Bagdai, Noreen Galvin, Ian Farr, Adam Allain, L. Davies, J. Bateson   +10 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

SQUIRE 2.0 (Standards for QUality Improvement Reporting Excellence): revised publication guidelines from a detailed consensus process

BMJ Quality & Safety, 2015
Since the publication of Standards for QUality Improvement Reporting Excellence (SQUIRE 1.0) guidelines in 2008, the science of the field has advanced considerably. In this manuscript, we describe the development of SQUIRE 2.0 and its key components.
Greg Ogrinc, L. Davies, Daisy Goodman, P. Batalden, F. Davidoff, David P. Stevens   +5 more
semanticscholar   +2 more sources

Streamlining workflows and redesigning job roles in the theatre sterile surgical unit

BMJ Open Quality, 2019
The theatre sterile surgical unit (TSSU) is an essential core to support the operating theatres in National University Hospital. Surgical instruments and supplies are processed, packaged and sterilised safe for surgical procedures.
Brandon Lum, Hong Muay Png, Hock Lan Yap, Cindy Tan, Bixian Sun, Yen Hoon Law   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Variation in clinical care associated with weekend admission and discharge in psychiatric in-patient units: retrospective case-note review

BJPsych Open, 2020
BackgroundQuestions have been raised regarding differences in the standards of care that patients receive when they are admitted to or discharged from in-patient units at weekends.AimsTo compare the quality of care received by patients with anxiety and ...
Ryan Williams, Lorna Farquharson, Ellen Rhodes, Mary Dang, Natasha Lindsay, Alan Quirk, David S. Baldwin, Mike J. Crawford   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source