Implementing national guidance such as that produced by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence should be a priority for NHS trusts. The best way of managing successful implementation is through collaboration across the healthcare community. This helps to improve communication, ensures progress is being made and enables healthcare professionals to concentrate on the whole path...

Setting priorities in healthcare has become a highly politicised activity. Traditionally it has been undertaken by government and the health professions but there is an increasing imperative to involve the public. The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has established a Citizens' Council as an attempt to capture the informed views of the public in shaping the Institute...

Disclosures This study was sponsored by Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals. Medical writing support was provided by PAREXEL and was funded by Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals. Current Management and Barriers to Treatment for Wet Age-Related Macular Degeneration (wAMD): Perspectives From Patients and Caregivers Monica Varano1, Nicole Eter2, Steve Winyard3, Kim U. Wittrup-Jensen4, Julie Heraghty5, ...

Aims: To determine the knowledge and practices regarding healthcare-associated infection among healthcare workers to make recommendations based on results prevent infection. Methodology: A descriptive correctional study was conducted in Burn Trauma Center Peshawar, Pakistan. Data were collected from 162 through a questionnaire. universal sampling technique. This permitted by Ethical Review Boar...

Differences in access to healthcare services and the resulting adverse health outcomes are major public health priorities. The Institute of Medicine and the Department of Health and Human Services have identified the need for strategies to improve access to healthcare services and to support the improvement of health outcomes. The literature documents health disparities associated with healthca...

PURPOSE Given the extensive data stored in healthcare data warehouses, data warehouse governance policies are needed to ensure data integrity and privacy. This review examines the current state of the data warehouse governance literature as it applies to healthcare data warehouses, identifies knowledge gaps, provides recommendations, and suggests approaches for further research. METHODS A com...

When the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Committee on Understanding and Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care issued its report in March 2002 [1], it created a stir not unlike the one that greeted the announcement of two other influential, and somewhat controversial reports, the report on patient safety and that on the quality chasm. The press, by and large, reported the bottom l...

First, it’s a great honor to have been invited back here again. I think this organization is one of the great organizations in this country, and indeed around the world, in trying to change the way we approach health care. What I’d like to do this morning is give you a different way to look at the crisis in the US health care system and hopefully offer you some very specific actions that you ca...

A i t W hen you walk into the National Intrepid Center of Excellence (NICoE) in Bethesda, MD, it quickly becomes clear that the U.S. military has embraced and recognized the value of holistic whole person approach to care. NICoE is a 72,000-sq ft, state-of-the-art facility that opened in 2010 that is dedicated to advancing clinical care, diagnosis, research, and treatment for service members wi...

BACKGROUND Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) increases in-hospital mortality of ventilated patients to 46%, compared with 32% for ventilated patients who do not develop VAP. In addition, VAP prolongs time spent on the ventilator, length of intensive care unit (ICU) stay, and length of hospital stay. METHODS In this study, we implemented VAP bundle to decrease the rate of VAP infection. Th...