Large scale organisational intervention to improve patient safety in four UK hospitals: mixed method evaluation

Autor: Bryony Dean Franklin, Amirta Benning, Karla Hemming, Gavin Rudge, Sopna Choudhury, Richard J. Lilford, Mary Dixon-Woods, Thirumalai Naicker, Alan Girling, Anu K. Suokas, Jeremy Dawson, Martin Carmalt, Ugochi Nwulu, Maisoon Ghaleb, Nick Barber
Rok vydání: 2011
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Zdroj: The BMJ
ISSN: 1468-5833
0959-8138
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.d195
Popis: Objectives To conduct an independent evaluation of the first phase of the Health Foundation’s Safer Patients Initiative (SPI), and to identify the net additional effect of SPI and any differences in changes in participating and non-participating NHS hospitals.\ud \ud Design Mixed method evaluation involving five substudies, before and after design.\ud \ud Setting NHS hospitals in the United Kingdom.\ud \ud Participants Four hospitals (one in each country in the UK) participating in the first phase of the SPI (SPI1); 18 control hospitals.\ud \ud Intervention The SPI1 was a compound (multi-component) organisational intervention delivered over 18 months that focused on improving the reliability of specific frontline care processes in designated clinical specialties and promoting organisational and cultural change.\ud \ud Results Senior staff members were knowledgeable and enthusiastic about SPI1. There was a small (0.08 points on a 5 point scale) but significant (P
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