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Use of checklists improves the quality and safety of prehospital emergency care.

European journal of emergency medicine : official journal of the European Society for Emergency Medicine

Kerner T, Schmidbauer W, Tietz M, Marung H, Genzwuerker HV.
PMID: 26287802
Eur J Emerg Med. 2017 Apr;24(2):114-119. doi: 10.1097/MEJ.0000000000000315.

OBJECTIVES: High-level emergency medical care requires transfer of evidence-based knowledge into practice. Our study is the first to investigate the feasibility of checklists in improving prehospital emergency care.MATERIALS AND METHODS: Three checklists based on standard operating procedures were introduced:...

Heterogeneity in application, design, and analysis characteristics was found for controlled before-after and interrupted time series studies included in Cochrane reviews.

Journal of clinical epidemiology

Polus S, Pieper D, Burns J, Fretheim A, Ramsay C, Higgins JPT, Mathes T, Pfadenhauer LM, Rehfuess EA.
PMID: 28750849
J Clin Epidemiol. 2017 Nov;91:56-69. doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2017.07.008. Epub 2017 Jul 25.

OBJECTIVES: The aim of the study was to examine the application, design, and analysis characteristics of controlled before-after (CBA) and interrupted time series (ITS) studies and their use in Cochrane reviews.STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING: We searched the Cochrane library...

Impact Analysis of the Policy for Access of Administrative Data in France: A Before-After Study.

Studies in health technology and informatics

Looten V, Simon M.
PMID: 32570558
Stud Health Technol Inform. 2020 Jun 16;270:1133-1137. doi: 10.3233/SHTI200339.

In 2017, French institutions reformed their data access policy regarding the national insurance and administrative databases systems (French abbreviation: SNDS), including claims data from hospitalization discharge summaries for the entire population follow-up encompassing over 10 years. Our study aimed...

A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Publication Types in Quality Improvement Journals.

American journal of medical quality : the official journal of the American College of Medical Quality

Wong CJ, White AA, Merel SE, Brock DM, Staiger TO.
PMID: 25753452
Am J Med Qual. 2016 Jul;31(4):364-9. doi: 10.1177/1062860615575547. Epub 2015 Mar 09.

Despite widespread engagement in quality improvement activities, little is known about the designs of studies currently published in quality improvement journals. This study's goal is to establish the prevalence of the types of research conducted in articles published in...

Perceived effectiveness of clinical pathway software: A before-after study in the Netherlands.

International journal of medical informatics

Askari M, Tam JLYY, Aarnoutse MF, Meulendijk M.
PMID: 31865190
Int J Med Inform. 2020 Mar;135:104052. doi: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2019.104052. Epub 2019 Dec 09.

BACKGROUND: Clinical pathways (CPs) increase in popularity and are known to lead to several benefits in the hospital environment. Clinical pathways can be either paper-based or software-based. It is known that paper-based CPs can result in more paperwork instead...

Patient Safety Culture and the Ability to Improve: A Proof of Concept Study on Hand Hygiene.

Infection control and hospital epidemiology

Caris MG, Kamphuis PGA, Dekker M, de Bruijne MC, van Agtmael MA, Vandenbroucke-Grauls CMJE.
PMID: 28967350
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2017 Nov;38(11):1277-1283. doi: 10.1017/ice.2017.209. Epub 2017 Oct 02.

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether the safety culture of a hospital unit is associated with the ability to improve. DESIGN Qualitative investigation of safety culture on hospital units following a before-and-after trial on hand hygiene. SETTING VU University Medical Center,...

Does knowledge brokering improve the quality of rapid review proposals? A before and after study.

Systematic reviews

Moore G, Redman S, D'Este C, Makkar S, Turner T.
PMID: 28129795
Syst Rev. 2017 Jan 28;6(1):23. doi: 10.1186/s13643-017-0411-0.

BACKGROUND: Rapid reviews are increasingly being used to help policy makers access research in short time frames. A clear articulation of the review's purpose, questions, scope, methods and reporting format is thought to improve the quality and generalisability of...

Assessing Medical Student Knowledge of Imaging Modality Selection Before and After a General Radiology Elective: A Comparison of MS-IIs, MS-IIIs, and MS-IVs.

Academic radiology

Gispen FE, Magid D.
PMID: 27551703
Acad Radiol. 2016 May;23(5):643-50. doi: 10.1016/j.acra.2015.12.023.

RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES: Correct selection of imaging tests is essential f or clinicians but until recently has been largely neglected in medical education. How and when students acquire such non-interpretive skills are unknown. This study will assess student knowledge...

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