Does competition improve public hospitals' efficiency? Evidence from a quasi-experiment in the English National Health Service
21 February 2012 by Research Admin in Access to Elective Services, Hospital Productivity
This study aims to test separately the impact of competition from public sector and private sector hospitals on the efficiency...
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Effect of working consecutive night shifts on sleep time, prior wakefulness, perceived levels of fatigue and performance on a psychometric test in emergency registrars (Australia)
22 February 2012 by Research Admin in Shorter Stays in ED, Hospital Productivity
Australian study evaluating the effect of working consecutive night shifts on sleep time, prior wakefulness, perceived levels of fatigue and...
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Alarming increase in serious infectious diseases in NZ
20 February 2012 by Research Admin in Increased Immunisation, Hospital Productivity
Press Release: University of Otago, 20 February 2012 Admissions to New Zealand hospitals from infectious diseases have jumped dramatically over...
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A person-time analysis of hospital activity among cancer survivors in England
16 February 2012 by Research Admin in Shorter Waits for Cancer Treatment, Hospital Productivity
This study describes the inpatient and day case hospital activity among the population of cancer survivors in England. This is...
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Prosthetic hip dislocations: Is relocation in the emergency department by emergency medicine staff better?
23 January 2012 by Research Admin in Shorter Stays in ED, Hospital Productivity, Knowledge Library, Hospital Productivity>Theatre (TPOT)/Day Surgery and 2 more
Retrospective cohort study of patients presenting to Auckland City Hospital Adult Emergency Department with prosthetic hip dislocations between 1 January...
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U.S. Health Care: The Good News (TV documentary)
22 February 2012 by Research Admin in Primary Health Care, Hospital Productivity, Quality Improvement>Implementation, Quality Improvement and 2 more
The United States is the only industrialized democracy that doesn’t provide health care for all its citizens. The consensus view...
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Estimating ICU bed capacity using discrete event simulation (Singapore)
20 February 2012 by Research Admin in Hospital Productivity, Hospital Productivity>Ward
This paper aims to develop a discrete event simulation (DES) model to help determine the proper level of ICU bed...
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How does lean work in emergency care? (Sweden)
2 February 2012 by Research Admin in Shorter Stays in ED, Hospital Productivity, Quality Improvement>Implementation, Quality Improvement and 2 more
This case study examines a lean-inspired intervention in a Swedish pediatric accident and emergency department. The authors used a mixed...
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Can NHS hospitals do more with less? (UK)
13 January 2012 by Research Admin in Hospital Productivity, Quality Improvement>Implementation, Quality Improvement, Hospital Productivity>Theatre (TPOT)/Day Surgery and 2 more
This review of hospital efficiency in the UK has found that there are many ways in which hospitals could improve...
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Discussion
- A structured approach to transforming a large public hospital emergency department via lean methodologies (USA)
- Investment in medicines highest in PHARMAC history
- New primary care role to be tested
- Diabetes Workforce Service Review
- Evaluation of MidCentral DHB's Medical Assessment and Planning Unit (MAPU)
Documents
- Does competition improve public hospitals' efficiency? Evidence from a quasi-experiment in the English National Health Service
- Can NHS hospitals do more with less? (UK)
- News and Views - November-December 2011
- News and Views - September-October 2011
- The Productive Leader - Releasing Time to Lead (England)
Tools
- How to Transform Patient Care: Telehealth Summit 2011 (UK) presentations
- Seven day working case studies (UK)
- Delivering major breast surgery safely (excluding reconstruction) as a day case or one night stay (England)
- Hospital emergency response checklist (World Health Organization)
- National Diabetes Retinal Screening Grading System and Referral Guidelines (2006) and Resources (2008)
Literature Abstracts
- Making our hospitals safer: Serious and Sentinel Events reported by District Health Boards in 2010/11
- Health and independence report
- Variation in New Zealand hospital outcomes: Combining hierarchical Bayesian modeling and propensity score methods for hospital performance comparisons
- Modular acute system for general surgery: Hand over the operation, not the patient
- Audit of stroke thrombolysis in Wellington, New Zealand: Disparity between in-hours and out-of-hours treatment time
International Literature
- Effect of working consecutive night shifts on sleep time, prior wakefulness, perceived levels of fatigue and performance on a psychometric test in emergency registrars (Australia)
- Quality of in-hospital cardiac arrest calls: A prospective observational study (England)
- Barriers to staff adoption of a surgical safety checklist (France)
- The importance of preparation for doctors' handovers in an acute medical assessment unit: A hierarchical task analysis (UK)
- Patient safety in patients who occupy beds on clinically inappropriate wards: A qualitative interview study with NHS staff (England)