BACKGROUND An estimated 120,000 patients are admitted to hospital in England and Wales each year for neurological observations following a head injury. The National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) has issued guidelines on the quality and frequency of neurological observations that should be made. OBJECTIVE Review of frequency and quality of observations in one trauma unit. STUDY DE...

AIM We sought to ascertain the nursing and midwifery research priorities at a large private tertiary hospital in Australia. DESIGN A modified Delphi technique with two rounds of questionnaires. METHODS The first round survey was distributed to 448 nurses and midwives with a 19.2% (n=86) response rate. Due to a low response rate in some specialties, the second round of the Delphi was only se...

Abstract Introduction Early administration of antibiotics is vital in patients that have intra-abdominal sepsis. The National Emergency Laparotomy Audit (NELA) 2019 found only 19% with suspected sepsis received the first hour. aim this project was to audit current time who underwent an emergency laparotomy our District General Hospital (DGH) Wales. Method This a retrospective all between Januar...

Background: Nurses are ideally placed to drive the safety and quality agenda within health care because of their unique proximity to patients. There have been some attempts to look at the links between nursing care and quality outcomes, but relatively little on the connection between nursing and patient safety. Therefore, exploring the evidence on this issue was indicated, excluding links to nu...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE There is increasing emphasis on the use of integrated systems for timely, accurate, and efficient data collection for a range of service, audit, quality, and research applications. The present study evaluates the acceptability and the quality of data collected on a ward-based system over a 6-month period. METHODS A multidisciplinary system specific for stroke rehabilita...

BACKGROUND Review of patients' notes while investigating clinical incidents showed a recurring problem of poor documentation of important aspects of the paediatric post-take ward round. PURPOSE OF THE STUDY To evaluate the impact of an acrostic (type of mnemonic), created to reflect the aspects of care that should be documented after every ward round, on the completeness of note keeping. ST...

The necropsy rate in the United Birmingham Hospital has fallen from 74-4% in 1958 to 46-0% in 1972. In the Birmingham region as a whole the rate is 27-3%, approximately equal to the national rate. Most clinicians in the group who replied to a standard questionary considered that the necropsy still has an important part to play in their own practice and in undergraduate training, and they viewed...