Case Studies

Displaying 1–6 of 6 Case Studies in Fundamentals

• Enhanced recovery clinical education programme improves quality of post-operative care (England)

  posted by WM Admin on 2015-05-06 11:38:40.354

  A successful enhanced recovery (ER) programme began to fail after organisational restructuring and staff changes. Patients did not meet their…

• Improving critical care discharge summaries: A collaborative quality improvement project using PDSA (UK)

  posted by WM Admin on 2015-05-05 16:12:42.644

  Around 110,000 people spend time in critical care units in England and Wales each year. The transition of care from…

• Developing person-centred analysis of harm in a paediatric hospital: A quality improvement report (UK)

  posted by WM Admin on 2015-03-31 16:38:31.87

  Awareness of what happens in real time is one of the ways to develop a safe system within a culture…

• Improving patient flow in pre-operative assessment (UK)

  posted by WM Admin on 2015-02-02 10:25:22.632

  Annual patient attendances at a pre-operative assessment department increased by 24.8% from 5659 in 2009, to 7062 in 2012. The…

• Improving patient safety through feedback on prescribing errors (Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, England)

  posted by WM Admin on 2014-06-27 09:15:38.529

  The Prescribing Improvement Model aimed to improve patient safety by reducing prescribing errors made by foundation year 1 doctors in…

• Trauma team redesign (Westmead Hospital, Sydney)

  posted by WM Admin on 2013-01-31 08:58:36.182

  A multidisciplinary team from Westmead Hospital, Sydney, worked together to improve the trauma patient journey within their emergency department. The…