Events

Event: Online Information
2nd – 4th December 2008 - Olympia Grand Hall, London, UK
The theme for this year is “Information at the heart of business” and the conference tracks will include:

• Web 2.0 after the buzz
• New ways of working – socialisation, collaboration and innovation
• Understanding behaviours for improved service delivery

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Event: International Forum on Quality and Safety in Health Care
17th – 20th March 2008 – The ICC, Berlin, Germany
This event contains well-founded research into quality improvement and descriptions of experience of improving quality and/or patient safety that have a useful message or lessons for others. Click here for more information.

Event: 9th International Heath Impact Assessment (HIA) Conference
9th-10th October 2008 – Liverpool Marriott City Centre Hotel
This conference will provide an international forum to debate and discuss a wide range of perspectives in Health Impact Assessment and to explore the role of HIA across a range of sectors. Click here to read more.

Event: 2nd Annual NIH Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation: Building Research Capacity to Bridge the Gap From Science to Service
28th – 29th January 2009 – Natcher Conference Center, NIH Campus, Bethesda, Maryland
This conference is sponsored by the National Institute of Health. The objective is for the research community to exchange ideas, explore contemporary topics and identify concepts, methods and strategies to build research and organizational capacity for dissemination and implementation science. Click here for more information.

Event: Patient safety in mental health: driving seven steps for safer services
26th November 2008 – Hilton Leeds City Hotel, Neville Street, Leeds, LS14BX
The National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) in collaboration with the Leeds Partnerships NHS Foundation Trust and with the support of the Department of Health will be holding this one day symposium to explore best practice in mental health patient safety. Click here to find out more.

Tools

The Demographic Assessment for Health Literacy (DAHL): A new tool for estimating associations between health literacy and outcomes in national surveys
A Hanchate, A Ash, J Gazmararian, M Wolf, M Paasche-Orlow
Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2008, 23(10), pp1561-1566
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The Informed Decisions Toolbox
The Center for Health Research at University College Berkeley has developed this toolbox with Kaiser Permanente and Oregon Health Service University. The aim is to help the health care decision-maker to use research evidence when making decisions about the organisation and financing of health care. Click here to access the toolbox and resources.

Calls for Interest

Call for interest: International Forum on Quality and Safety in Health Care
Deadline for abstract submission: 26th September 2008
Authors are invited to submit abstracts for this event. Submissions are welcomed of either well-founded research into quality improvement or descriptions of experience of improving quality and/or patient safety that have a useful message or lessons for others. Lessons that emerge from failure may be just as useful as those learnt from success. Click here to find out more about submitting an abstract.

Human Resources

Improving accountability for the public investment in health profession education: it’s time to try health workforce planning
DC Goodman
Journal of the American Medical Association, 2008, 300(10), pp1205-1207
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Employee engagement in the UK: meeting the challenge in the public sector
K Pritchard
Development and Learning in Organizations 2008, 22(6), pp15-17
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Mentoring in an increasingly global workplace: facing the realities and challenges
T Matuszek, DR Self, M Schraeder
Development and Learning in Organizations 2008, 22(6), pp18-20
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HRM and knowledge management
IR Edvardsson
Employee Relations, 2008, 30(5), pp553-561
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Leadership

Impact of clinical leadership development on the clinical leader, nursing team and care-giving process: a case study
BD de Casterle, A Willemse, M Verchueren, K Milisen
Journal of Nursing Management, 2008, 16(6), pp753-763
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Management

The clinical content of NHS trust board meetings: an initial exploration
M Watkins, R Jones, L Lindsey, R Sheaff
Journal of Nursing Management, 2008, 16(6), pp707-715
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Research

Reproducibility of systematic literature reviews on food, nutrition, physical activity and endometrial cancer
R Thompson, E Bandera, V Burley, J Cade, D Forman, J Freudenheim, D Greenwood, D Jacobs, R Kalliecharan, L Kushi, M McCullough, L Miles, D Moore, J Moreton, T Rastoqi, M Wiseman
Public Health Nutrition, 2008, 11(10), pp1006-1014
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An evaluation of the ‘Designated Research Team’ approach to building research capacity in primary care
J Cooke, S Nancarrow, J Dyas, M Williams
BMC Family Practice, 2008, 9:37
This paper describes an evaluation of an initiative to increase the research capability of clinical groups in primary and community care settings in a region of the United Kingdom.
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From big to small: a process for developing policy-relevant research summaries
CN Wathen, GK Watson, SM Jack, S Caldwell, N Lewis
Healthcare Policy, 2008, 4(1), pp60-69
This is a case study describing a project that developed short, policy-relevant research summaries of topics prioritised by the Ontario Women’s Health Council.
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Health Informatics

Determinants of Internet use as a preferred source of information on personal health
M Lemire, G Pare, C Sicotte, C Harvey
International Journal of Medical Informatics, 2008, 77(11), pp723-734
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Association of a clinical knowledge support system with improved patient safety, reduced complications and shorter length of stay among Medicare beneficiaries in acute care hospitals in the United States
PA Bonis, GT Pickens, DM Rind, DA Foster
International Journal of Medical Informatics, 2008, 77(11), pp715-786
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Content of weblogs written by health professionals
T Lagu, E Kaufman, D Asch, K Armstrong
Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2008, 23(10), pp1642-1646
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Methodologic issues in health informatics trials: the complexities of complex interventions
I Shcherbatykh, A Holbrook, L Thabane, L Dolovich
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2008, 15(5), pp575-580
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Innovation

Will it work here? A decisionmaker’s guide to adopting innovations
This guide has been prepared for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The aim of the guide is to promote evidence-based decision-making and help decision-makers determine whether an innovation would work in their health care organization. Guided by a framework that regards adoption as a process, rather than an event, the tool is based on a modified version of the core concepts in Rogers’ Diffusion of Innovations. Click here to read the guide.

Working together for better primary health care: overcoming barriers to workforce change and innovation
This report has been prepared for the New Zealand Minister of Health from the Workforce Taskforce. The Taskforce identified the principal barriers to primary health care workforce effectiveness in the following areas:

• The funding model
• Organisational structures
• Professional leadership
• Training
• Quality improvement

Click here to read the report.

Learning

Internet-based learning in the health professions: a meta-analysis
DA Cook
Journal of the American Medical Association, 2008, 300(10), pp1181-1196
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Knowledge Improvement

User experiences of evidence-based online resources for health professionals: user testing of The Cochrane Library
SE Rosenbaum, C Glenton, J Cracknell
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2008, 8:34
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The strategic management of organizational knowledge exchange related to hospital quality measurement and reporting
P Rangachari
Quality Management in Health Care, 2008, 17(3), pp252-269
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A systems-based dynamic knowledge transfer capacity model
R Parent, M Roy, D St-Jacques
Journal of Knowledge Management, 2007, 11(6), pp81-93
The purpose of this paper is to understand how recent developments in systems thinking and social construction can influence understanding of knowledge transfer (KT) and to propose a new systems-based knowledge transfer model. Click here to read more.

Public Health

Quality in and equality of access to healthcare services in England: CHE Research Paper 40
MK Goddard
August 2008, Centre for Health Economics, University of York, UK
The purpose of this report is to identify and analyse barriers to access in health care services, which are faced by vulnerable groups in society, and especially those most exposed to social exclusion.
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Quality in and equality of access to healthcare services: executive summary
2008, European Commission
The European Commission commissioned the European Health Management Association to undertake a study on “Quality in and equality of access to healthcare services: HealthQUEST”. The study has two key aims:
To identify and analyse barriers to accessing healthcare
To review policy initiatives taken by Member States to realize the objective of equitable access for all
Click here to read the executive summary of the report.

Health for all? A critical analysis of public health policies in eight European countries
C Hogstedt, H Moberg, B Lundgren, M Backhans
2008 Swedish National Institute of Public Health
This publication presents the situation 2006 concerning equity-oriented public health policies in eight European countries using a template for comparisons. Click here to read more.

Decision Making

Patient assessments of the most important medical decision during a hospitalization
T Perneger, A Charvet-Bacrard, A Perrier
Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2008, 23(10), pp1659-1665
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Affective forecasting: an unrecognized challenge in making serious health decisions
J Halpern, R Arnold
Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2008, 23(10), pp1708-1712
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Patient Safety

The effect of electronic prescribing on medication errors and adverse drug events: a systematic review
E Ammenwerth, P Schnell-Inderst, C Machan, U Siebert
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 2008, 15(5), pp575-580
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Evidence Based Practice

Achieving evidence-based nursing practice: impact of the Caledonian Development Model
D Tolson, J Booth, A Lowndes
Journal of Nursing Management, 2008, 16(6), pp682-691
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An organized approach to improvement in guideline adherence for acute myocardial infarction: results with the Get With The Guidelines Quality Improvement Program
WR Lewis, ED Peterson, CP Cannon, DM Super, KA LaBresh, K Quealy, L Liang, GC Fonarow
Archives of Internal Medicine, 2008, 168, pp1813-1819
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Communication

Peer support: healthcare professionals supporting each other after adverse medical events
F van Pelt
Quality and Safety in Health Care, 2008, 17(4), pp249-252
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Health Informatics

Accuracy in the recording of pressure ulcers and prevention after implementing an electronic health record in hospital care
L Gunningberg, MF Dahm, A Ehrenberg
Quality and Safety in Health Care, 2008, 17(4), pp281-285
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Knowledge Improvement

A framework for collaborative knowledge creation
M Salisbury
Knowledge Management Research and Practice, 2008, 6(3), pp214-224
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Two forgotten elements of a knowledge management strategy
J Liebowitz
Knowledge Management Research and Practice, 2008, 6(3), pp239-244
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Patient Safety

‘Every error counts’: a web-based incident reporting and learning system for general practice
B Hoffmann, M Beyer, J Rohe, J Gensichen, FM Gerlach
Quality and Safety in Health Care, 2008, 17(4), pp307-312
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Performance Improvement

Achieving effective staffing through a shared decision-making approach to open-shift management
NM Valentine, J Nash, D Hughes, K Douglas
Journal of Nursing Administration, 2008, 38(7/8), pp331-335
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Evidence Based Practice

Critical appraisal for emergency medicine 3: evaluation of a therapy
S Goodacre
Emergency Medicine Journal, 200-8, 25(9), pp590-592
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Hospital admissions with head injury following publication of NICE guidance
S Goodacre
Emergency Medicine Journal, 200-8, 25(9), pp556-557
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Use of statistical process control charts in stroke medicine to determine if clinical evidence and changes in service were associated with improvements in the quality of care
GR Henderson, GE Mead, ML van Dijke, S Ramsay, MA McDowall, M Dennis
Quality and Safety in Health Care, 2008, 17(4), pp301-306
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Guideline implementation in allied health professions: a systematic review of the literature
S Hakkennes, K Dodd
Quality and Safety in Health Care, 2008, 17(4), pp296-300
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Implementation of proven interventions in general medical inpatients: development and evaluation of a new quality indicator for drug therapy
C Huang, P Loewen, T Pelletier, J Slater, M Chung
Quality and Safety in Health Care, 2008, 17(4), pp269-274
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Service Improvement

Can a change in policy reduce emergency hospital admissions? Effect of admission avoidance team, guideline implementation and maximizing the observation unit
R Gonnah
Emergency Medicine Journal, 200-8, 25(9), pp575-578
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