Patient Care

Amazing GRACE: study data show following best practices can improve outcomes though room for improvement always exists
Healthcare Benchmarks and Quality Improvement, 2007, 14 (7), pp77-78

WHO unveils nine patient safety strategies to assist members in care redesign
Healthcare Benchmarks and Quality Improvement, 2007, 14 (7), pp79-80

Learning

Developing a virtual learning course in emergency medicine for F2 doctors
S Carley
Emergency Medicine Journal, 2007, 24(8), pp525-528
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Knowledge Management

Knowledge sharing: developing from within
K Patrick, F Dotsika
Learning Organization: An International Journal, 2007, 14(5), pp395-406

Retention of information by emergency department staff at ambulance handover: do standardized approaches work?
R Talbot
Emergency Medicine Journal, 2007, 24(8), pp539-542

Evidence Based Practice

PEARLS (Practical Evidence About Real Life Situations)
Every two weeks, the Cochrane Primary Care field is producing 2 short (200 words or less) structured summaries of Cochrane reviews and sending them out by email. If you would like to see examples of PEARLS, click here and click on P.E.A.R.L.S. If you would like to subscribe to P.E.A.R.L.S. click here. There is no charge for this service.

Economics

Quality of primary care in England with the introduction of pay for performance
S Campbell
New England Journal of Medicine, 2007, 357(2), pp181-190
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Research

Knowledge and skills to encourage comprehensive research involvement among dietitians
K Whelan
Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics, 2007, 20(4), pp291-293

Problem-based versus conventional curricula: influence on knowledge and attitudes of medical students towards health research
H Khan, AM Taqui, M Rizwanulhaq Khawaja, Z Fatmi
PLoS ONE, 2007, 2:7, e632
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Process evaluation for complex interventions in primary care: understanding trials using the normalization process model
CR May, FS Mair, CF Dowrick, TL Finch
BMC Family Practice, 2007, 8:42
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Patient Care

Influence of a performance-improvement initiative on quality of care for patients hospitalized with heart failure: results of the organized program to initiate lifesaving treatment in hospitalized patients with heart failure (OPTIMIZE-HF)
GC Fonarow, WT Abraham, NM Albert, W Gattis Stough, M Gheorghiade, BH Greenberg, CM O’Connor, K Pieper, J Lena Sun, CW Yancy, JB Young
Archives of Internal Medicine, 2007, 167, pp1493-1502

“Mistake-proofing health care delivery”
A new report from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality describes 150 practical examples that can help make health care processes “mistake-proof.”
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The impact of clinical physician order entry systems on improving patient safety
This is the next in the series of Faculty management briefings, and was overseen with the help of the Faculty of Health Informatics Board. Click here to read more.

Improving detection of adverse effects of marketed drugs
DF Klein
Journal of the American Medical Association, 2007, 298(3), pp333-334

Effect of educational intervention on medication timing in Parkinson’s disease: a randomized controlled trial
KA Grosset, DG Grosset
BMC Neurology, 2007, 7:20
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Patient adherence to tuberculosis treatment: a systematic review of qualitative research
SA Munro, SA Lewin, HJ Smith, ME Engel, A Fretheim, J Volmink
PLoS Medicine, 2007, 4:726 July 2007
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Management

Scientific progress in strategic management: the case of the resource-based view
NJ Foss
International Journal of Learning and Intellectual Capital, 2007, 4(1/2), pp29-46

Action planning: making change happen in clinical practice
H O’Neal, K Manley
Nursing Standard, 2007, 21(35), pp35-39
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Ten steps to improving team leadership
C Pearce
Nursing Management, 2007, 14(4), pp25
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Assessing organisational readiness for change: use of diagnostic analysis prior to the implementation of a multidisciplinary assessment for acute stroke care
S Hamilton, SM McLaren, A Mulhall
Implementation Science, 2007, 2:21
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Queuing theory: how mathematics can improve the flow of patients in the emergency room
Hospitals are starting to use queuing theory as a powerful tool to overcome emergency room bottlenecks. Read these articles to find out more:
Queue fever: part 1
Queue fever: part 2

Learning

Nurse leaders as teachers
E Haidar
Nursing Management, 2007, 14(4), pp30-33
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Is untargeted educational outreach visiting delivered by pharmaceutical advisers effective in primary care? A pragmatic randomized controlled trial
MP Eccles, IN Steen, PM Whitty, L Hall
Implementation Science, 2007, 2:23
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Knowledge Management

Patient information needs: pre- and post-consultation
SJ Attfield, A Adams, A Blandford
Health Informatics Journal, 2006, 12(2), pp165-177

Healthcare information giving services: technologies and everyday practicalities
K Clarke, J Rooksby, M Rouncefield, R Procter, R Slack
Health Informatics Journal, 2006, 12(2), pp153-164

Entrepreneurial knowledge management and sustainable opportunity creations: a conceptual framework
LO Widding
International Journal of Learning and Intellectual Capital, 2007, 4(1/2), pp187-202

Evidence Based Practice

Evidence based practice education in postgraduate health care: a systematic review
G Flores-Mateo, JM Argimon
BMC Health Services Research, 2007, 7:119
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Events

Event: The Electronic Health Record – the possible dream?
Professor Protti will be presenting at the next Faculty of Health Informatics Masterclass, in Leeds on the 10th September, (from 10am to 3pm). Click here for more information.

Economics

Getting to grips with practice based commissioning
Y Sawbridge
Nursing Management, 2007, 14(4), pp14-15
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Payer leverage and hospital compliance with a benchmark: a population-based observational study
JM Hollingsworth, SL Krein, DC Miller, S DeMonner, BK Hollenbeck
BMC Health Services Research, 2007, 7:112
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Economics

Commissioning from Foundation Trusts Network
This is a new network from NHS Networks, and it has been established to provide a forum for the Finance and Commissioning leads in Primary Care Trusts who are contracting with Foundation Trusts. Click here to join the network.

Events

Event: Primary Care Management 2007
This is a conference, taking place in London on 25th September, and focusing on four programme strands:
o Commissioning
o Practice-based commissioning
o Market development
o Developing PCT provider services
Click here for more information.

Event: Primary Care Live
This is a free two-day event, taking place at ExCeL in London, on 9th and 10th October. It aims to demonstrate best practice, by highlighting 100 examples of best practice, excellence and innovation. Click here to find out more.

Event: International Mobile Libraries Conference
The First International m-libraries Conference is taking place in Milton Keynes, on the 13th and 14th November. The conference aims to explore and share work carried out in libraries around the world to deliver services and resources to users who are ‘on the move.’ Click here to read more.

Event: Commissioning for people with long term conditions
The Department of Health is organising two events about Commissioning for People with Long Term Conditions. The first is in Leeds on the 18th September, and the second in London on the 19th September. Click here to read more.

Knowledge Management

Literature review on libraries, social software and distance learners
The LASSIE (Libraries and Social Software in Education) project has published a draft literature review of libraries, social software and distance learners. Click here for more. The project will explore how social software might enhance distance learners’ use of libraries, and how libraries can implement social software more generally. To keep up-to-date with LASSIE, read the project blog.

Economics

Practice Based Commissioning Development Programme – forthcoming webcasts
The Improvement Foundation’s Practice Based Commissioning programme is running a series of PBC webcasts during July and August. Click here for more information.

Promoting benchmarking and best value within the NHS
The key objective of the National Performance Advisory Group is to help NHS and other public sector managers to develop their services in terms of quality, fitness-for-purpose, performance, and value for money, by promoting benchmarking and best value in the NHS. Click here to read the newsletters and to read more about the work of the NPAG.

Events

Event: Delivering NHS Public Consultations: Best Practice and Innovation
This is a one-day conference, taking place on the 11th September, at the University of Salford (in the Mary Seacole Building). Click here to read more.

Event: Social Mentoring conference – 17th September
On Social Mentoring is a one-day conference on good practice in mentoring and befriending, organized by EQUAL Brighton and Hove, and taking place at the University of Brighton on Monday 17th September, from 10am to 5pm. Click here for more information.

Patient Care

Quality of primary care in England with the introduction of Pay for Performance
S Campbell and others
New England Journal of Medicine, 2007, 357(2), pp181-190
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The structure of quality systems is important to the process and outcome, an empirical study of 386 hospital departments in Sweden
S Kunkel, U Rosenqvist, R Westerling
BMC Health Services Research, 2007, 7, pp104
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Learning

Journal of Information Literacy
The Journal of Information Literacy is an international, peer-reviewed journal that investigates Information Literacy within a wide range of settings. It is freely available and in the latest issue, there is an article called Embedding Information Literacy into staff development in an acute National Health Service (NHS) Trust. Click here to read the print version of this article.

Global Health

Meeting the survival needs of the world’s least health people: a proposed model for global health governance
LO Gostin
Journal of the American Medical Association, 2007, 298(2), pp225-228

Economics

Relevance of cost-effectiveness analysis to clinicians and policy makers
AS Detsky, A Laupacis
Journal of the American Medical Association, 2007, 298(2), pp221-224

Learning

Health and Learning Knowledge Centre
The Canadian Council on Learning has set up the Health and Learning Knowledge Centre, which serves as a national network linking expertise about the vital connections between the learning and health of Canadians. The Canadian Council on Learning also produces an electronic journal called Journal of Applied Research on Learning, which is freely available.

Economics

The U.K. Way, Spending and Measuring in the National Health Service: Lessons for Canada
The U.K. Way, Spending and Measuring in the National Health Service: Lessons for Canada can help Canadian decision-makers to understand the possibilities and concerns presented by the U.K.'s experience with health-care reform. This has been published by the Conference Board of Canada and is freely available, although registration is required. Click here for more.

Patient Care

Effectiveness of strategies for informing, educating, and involving patients
A Coulter, J Ellins
British Medical Journal, 2007, 335(7609), pp24-27

Management

From cars to catheters: adapting lean principles within a healthcare environment
Development and Learning in Organizations, 2007, 21(4), pp28-30

Good management: why pessimism should not stand in the way of practice-based commissioning’s vital role
Health Service Journal, 2007, 6061, pp28-29

Learning

European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning
The European Distance and E-Learning Network (EDEN) is a network and meeting place for the open, distance and e-learning community in Europe. This network has supported the development of the European Journal of Open and Distance Learning (EURODL), which is an electronic, multimedia journal on distance and e-learning distributed on the Internet. EURODL is free to readers and contributes to the Open Content movement.

Learning and leading: how beliefs about learning can be used to promote effective leadership
D Nailon, B Delahaye, J Brownlee
Development and Learning in Organizations, 2007, 21(4), pp6-9

Lifelong learning: reflections of a junior doctor
MA Williams
Development and Learning in Organizations, 2007, 21(4), pp10-11

Shared vision: a development tool for organizational learning
SL Hoe
Development and Learning in Organizations, 2007, 21(4), pp12-13

Corporate universities in Germany: implementing and developing the organization’s strategy through learning
Development and Learning in Organizations, 2007, 21(4), pp25-27

Research on teacher and librarian collaboration: an examination of underlying structures of models
P Montiel-Overall
Library and Information Science Research, 2007, 29(2), pp277-292

Knowledge Management

Knowledge tool introduced for the NHS
Tessa Richards
British Medical Journal, 2007, 335(7609), pp15

Decision Making

Information transfer: what do decision makers want and need from researchers
M Dobbins, P Rosenbaum, N Plews, M Law, A Fysh
Implementation Science, 2007, 2(20)
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Sharing decisions with patients and allowing different courses of treatment will ensure patients get the care they need and want
Health Service Journal, 2007, 6060, pp16-17

Economics

Estimating cost savings from regionalizing cardiac procedures using hospital discharge date
V Ho, LA Petersen
Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation, 2007, 5(7)
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Evidence Based Practice

The information-seeking behaviour of doctors: a review of evidence
K Davies
Health Information Libraries Journal, 2007, 24, pp78-94

The propensity to adopt evidence-based practice among physical therapists
PH Bridges, LL Bierema, T Valentine
BMC Health Services Research, 2007, 7(103)
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Translating research findings into practice: example of treatment services for adolescents in managed care
S Sterling, C Weisner
Alcohol Research Health, 2006, 29(1), pp11-8

Implementing nursing best practice guidelines: impact on patient referrals
N Edwards, B Davies, J Ploeg, T Virani, J Skelly
BMC Nursing, 2007, 6(4)
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An evidence-based template for implementation of multidisciplinary evidence-based practices in a tertiary hospital setting
MR Kresse, MA Kuklinski, JG Cacchione
American Journal of Medical Quality, 2007, 22(3), pp148-163

Use and perceptions of clinical practice guidelines by internal medicine physicians
AM Shea, V DePuy, JM Allen, KP Weinfurt
American Journal of Medical Quality, 2007, 22(3), pp170-176

Health Informatics

Management briefing on the impact of clinical physician order entry systems on improving patient safety
The Faculty of Health Informatics has produced a management briefing on the impact of clinical physician order entry systems on improving patient safety. This is one of a series of briefings aimed with providing essential knowledge to busy NHS professionals. Click here for more.

Human Resources

Professional quality of life and organizational changes: a five-year observational study in primary care
J Martin-Fernandez, T Gomez-Gascon, M Beamud-Lagos, JA Cortes-Rubio, A Alberquilla-Menendez-Asenio
BMC Health Services Research, 2007, 7(101)
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Voltaire’s Candide, medical students, and mentoring
TJ Papadimos
Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine, 2007, 2(13)
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Innovation

New government department – The Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills
The Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills brings together functions from the former Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), including responsibilities for science and innovation, with further and higher education and skills, previously part of the Department for Education and Skills.

Knowledge Management

Knowledge translation on dementia: a cluster randomized trial to compare a blended learning approach with a classical advanced training in GP quality circles
HC Vollmar, ME Butzlaff, R Lefering, MA Rieger
BMC Health Services Research, 2007, 7(92)
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Social software as support in hybrid learning environments: the value of the blog as a tool for reflective learning and peer support
H Hall, B Davison
Library and Information Science Research, 2007, 29(2), pp163-187

Patient Care

Relationship of literacy and heart failure in adults with diabetes
AS Laramee, N Morris, B LittenbergBMC Health Services Research, 2007, 7(98)
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Research

Useful tool to help researchers select journals for publication
Through funding from the Royal Libary of Sweden there is a new tool to support researchers in the selection of journals for publication. The tool is called Journal Info and allows a quick and easy access to journal information via a website collection. The information provided about journals include genre, access, costs and quality. You can also see which databases list a particular journal, what it will cost for libraries and alternative open access journals in existence. In total there are currently 18000 journals in the database. The audience is researchers and the site exists in English and Swedish to reach as many as possible. Information has been collated from the web and is continually updated. Please make comments on this new tool and spread the information to researchers where you work and beyond.

Useful databases
The following clinical databases are available here, and they cover topics related to health management, leadership, organizational behaviour, policy, improvement, etc:

DH-Data – details of health policy documents.
Kings Fund – health management resources.
CINAHL – resources on education, information skills, personnel, etc.
PsycInfo – resources on organizational behaviour and education.

Another useful database is:
Copac – this a library catalogue which gives free access to the merged catalogues of major UK and Irish academic libraries plus the UK National Libraries, including the British Library. It will be necessary to negotiate access to these resources, with the exception of the British Library, with whom it is possible to set up a personal or institutional account. The feasibility of setting up an institutional account is currently being investigated by the NHS Institute.

Tools

Access to useful tools, guides and resources
Useful tools, guides and resources are now available through the Common User Interface portal and the Microsoft NHS Resource Centre. Click here for more.

Launch of the ETD standards ‘Toolkit’ of tools, templates and resources
A toolkit of training tools, templates and resources has been launched to support the usage of the Education, Training and Development Standards. Click here for more.