OBJECTIVES To assess whether, compared with previous years, hospital care became safer in 2011/2012, expressing itself in a fall in preventable adverse event (AE) rates alongside patient safety initiatives. DESIGN Retrospective patient record review at three points in time. SETTING In three national AE studies, patient records of 2004, 2008 and 2011/2012 were reviewed in, respectively, 21 h...

PURPOSE Accident and emergency (A&E) departments experience a secondary peak in patient length of stay (LoS) at around four hours, caused by the coping strategies used to meet the operational standards imposed by government. The aim of this paper is to build a discrete-event simulation model that captures the coping strategies and more accurately reflects the processes that occur within an A&E ...

We assessed whether adult Black and minority ethnic (BME) patients detained for involuntary psychiatric treatment experienced more coercion than similar White patients. We found no evidence of this from patient interviews or from hospital records. The area (mental health trust) where people were treated was strongly associated with both the experience of coercion and the recording of a coercive...

Statistics are presented on the number and rate of procedures performed for inpatients in non-Federal short-stay hospitals by patient and hospital characteristics. These estimates are based on data abstracted from a national sample of hospital records of discharged patients. This report also presents estimates of average length of stay for single-listed procedures. Allmatarial appearing inthisr...

A large number of prescribing quality indicators based on register data have been proposed and many are used routinely in quality management. Often the content and face validity of indicators have been assessed by consensus methods, but studies analysing other validity aspects are scarce. Prescription data are frequently used for indicators, but they do not provide any direct information about ...

Statistics are presented on the number and rate of inpatients with surgery discharged from non-Federal short-stay hospitals and the types of surgical operations performed. The data for this report are based on information abstracted by means of the Hospital Discharge Survey from a national sample of the hospital records for discharged inpatients. Estimates of the number of patients with surgery...

Absence from school during the first year after starting major treatment for cancer or chronic or orthopaedic conditions was examined. Retrospective data were collected on 72 children and obtained from hospital records, school registers, and interviews with parents and teachers. Median initial absences caused by treatment were 91, 29-5, and 15 days for cancer, chronic, and orthopaedic patients ...

OBJECTIVES Through telehealth, medical services have expanded beyond spatial boundaries and are now available in living spaces outside of hospitals. It can also contribute to patient medical knowledge improvement because patients can access their hospital records and data from home. However, concepts of telehealth are rather vague in Korea. METHODS We refer to several clinical reports to dete...

OBJECTIVE To assess the accuracy of parental recall of birth weight in a British population and to investigate whether social class and age of the child significantly influence the accuracy of recalled birth weight. METHODS A questionnaire was given to parents whose children were participating in a blood pressure study and the hospital records were retrieved to check the birth weight data. ...

1. Aliau, agea zo years, was aumittea into the Ghazipur Dispensary on 23rd September 1884. He first got symptoms of stone when about 10 years old. In 1879 he was lithotomised in this hospital; the cicatrix was apparent, but the hospital records for the year in question were not forthcoming. After a year's freedom the symptoms recurred ; lie had recently suffered much and looked very ill. On pas...