Add to ORKGThe clinical outcomes at weekends are worse than during the week in a hospital setting. There are many potential factors which influence this. High quality communication between the weekday teams and the on call weekend staff could help improve clinical outcomes at weekends, but there are no validated forms of communication that have been established in a paediatric hospital setting. The casenotes of all medical patients (n=119) were prospectively evaluated across all medical wards in a large paediatric hospital over three weekends, to establish the quality of information available to on call teams. Following introduction of structured documentation, known as
Effective handovers are vital to patient safety and continuity of care, and this is recognised by se...
A lack of communication between junior doctors and phlebotomists means untaken blood tests are often...
OBJECTIVE: Build a quality improvement (QI) intervention to improve communication between a children...
The clinical outcomes at weekends are worse than during the week in a hospital setting. There are ma...
While it is widely recognised that communication and handover are a fundamental component in providi...
Weekends are critical times in an inpatient stay, when daily review of patients is not routine and t...
A recent joint publication by the Royal College of Physicians and Royal College of Nursing raised co...
In recent years medical handover has been identified as an increasingly important area for hospitals...
In 2000, an interdisciplinary surgical morning meeting (SMM) was introduced into the infants' and to...
One of the key roles of a junior doctor is co-ordinating the care of their patients and communicatin...
Poor weekend handover has been implicated as one of the causes of observed higher mortality rates at...
INTRODUCTION The mortality associated with weekend admission to hospital (the 'weekend effect') h...
Structured approach in improving weekend handovers in a medical high dependency uni
Junior doctors are too often frustrated by not being able to quickly find information for how to mak...
There is a higher incidence of mortality and adverse events among inpatients in UK hospitals at the ...
Effective handovers are vital to patient safety and continuity of care, and this is recognised by se...
A lack of communication between junior doctors and phlebotomists means untaken blood tests are often...
OBJECTIVE: Build a quality improvement (QI) intervention to improve communication between a children...
The clinical outcomes at weekends are worse than during the week in a hospital setting. There are ma...
While it is widely recognised that communication and handover are a fundamental component in providi...
Weekends are critical times in an inpatient stay, when daily review of patients is not routine and t...
A recent joint publication by the Royal College of Physicians and Royal College of Nursing raised co...
In recent years medical handover has been identified as an increasingly important area for hospitals...
In 2000, an interdisciplinary surgical morning meeting (SMM) was introduced into the infants' and to...
One of the key roles of a junior doctor is co-ordinating the care of their patients and communicatin...
Poor weekend handover has been implicated as one of the causes of observed higher mortality rates at...
INTRODUCTION The mortality associated with weekend admission to hospital (the 'weekend effect') h...
Structured approach in improving weekend handovers in a medical high dependency uni
Junior doctors are too often frustrated by not being able to quickly find information for how to mak...
There is a higher incidence of mortality and adverse events among inpatients in UK hospitals at the ...
Effective handovers are vital to patient safety and continuity of care, and this is recognised by se...
A lack of communication between junior doctors and phlebotomists means untaken blood tests are often...
OBJECTIVE: Build a quality improvement (QI) intervention to improve communication between a children...