Anticoagulation service: improving the referral process

Anticoagulation service: improving the referral process.

Oral anticoaguIants are extremely common, and it is estimated that there are between 500,000 and 1 million people prescribed them in the UK.[1] These drugs are the most frequently named medication in fatal errors and litigation claims [2] and they require the implementation of additional safety controls.[3] Warfarin is the most commonly prescribed anticoagulant and it requires regular internati...

Referral Tracking Process 1 Running head: REFERRAL-CONSULTATIVE PROCESS AT MONCRIEF ARMY COMMUNITY HOSPITAL Graduate Management Project Improving the Referral Tracking Process At Moncrief Army Community Hospital CPT

Improving the chemotherapy process and service to cancer patients

The North Wales Cancer Treatment Centre (NWCTC) has to deal with an increasing demand in the number of patients who require chemotherapy, with the escalating use of second line, third line, and additional treatment for many cancers. As a result, there is growing pressure on the chemotherapy unit to deliver treatment quickly, efficiently, and safely. Following guidelines from the Department of H...

Improving care coordination in the specialty referral process between primary and specialty care.

There is growing evidence of sub-optimal care coordination in the US. Care coordination includes the specialty referral process, which involves referral decision-making and information transfer between primary and specialty care. This article summarizes the evidence of sub-optimal care coordination in this process, as well as potential strategies to improve it.

Improving Service Innovation through Structured Process-oriented Knowledge Infrastructure Design

Formalised service innovation is a central tenet of enterprise systems lifecycle phases. Event driven process models extended with knowledge objects are found to be not useful in early lifecycle phases. When an upgrade is required, a map of the knowledge infrastructure is needed to better design further service innovation because functional maps no longer adequately describe the context adequat...