Friday, 27 February 2009

Events

Event: 6th International G-I-N Conference 2009: Evidence translation in different countries
1st – 4th November 2009 – Lisbon, Portugal
The programme will include sessions on:

  • Knowledge transfer – practical tools and incentives for getting evidence into practice
  • Quality aspects – importance and use of indicators
  • Patient perspectives on guidelines – including involvement of patients and methods of conveying evidence to consumers
  • Policy makers perspectives – using evidence to promote safety and quality, promote the use and importance of guidelines in the global context

Click here for more information. The deadline for abstracts is 30th May 2009.

Event: 10th European Conference on Knowledge Management
3rd-4th September 2009 – Universita degli Studi di Padova, Vicenza, Italy
Click here to read more about this conference.

Event: The Triple Aim: optimizing health care resources for the good of a population
14th-15th May, 2009 – London, England
Improve the health of the population…enhance the patient experience of care…control the per capita cost of care – these are the concurrent goals of healthcare systems that serve populations. This is a two-day seminar that will provide healthcare professionals with the opportunity to learn a specific framework for achieving the Triple Aim and to develop a plan for applying the framework to their own organizations. Click here to find out more about this event.

Event: Web&ACTION: Using the IHI Global Trigger Tool for Measuring Patient Safety
1st and 15th April, and 6th May 2009 – online webinars.
These programs combine three intensive expert-let web-based learning sessions followed by Action Periods during which participants apply their knowledge to real-time practice. This particular program will teach participants how to identify harm, and use these results to measure the effectiveness of safety improvements to reduce patient harm. Click here for more information.

Event: m-ICTE 2009
22nd-24th April 2009 – Lisbon, Portugal
The conference is an international forum for discussion among teachers, researchers and people who are interested in the ways emerging technologies are transforming education. The special sessions are:

  • Web 2.0 for Education
  • ePortfolios
  • ICT in Science and Engineering
  • Medical e-Learning

Click here for more.

Event: 8th EXPOELEARNING
19th-20th March 2009 – Barcelona, Spain
“The image of e-learning” is the theme of this year’s Expoelearning, international congress and professional showroom. The parallel activities include Virtualcampus for universities, Moodleparty for companies, and Educaparty for teachers to exchange experiences. Click here for more.

Event: Lean and Six Sigma: a practical guide for clinicians and managers at directorate and ward/clinical service delivery level
15th May 2009 – Manchester Conference Centre, Manchester
This conference provides a guide to implementing Lean and Six Sigma across your own organisation, and includes an overview of the Lean and Six Sigma tools. Topics include:

  • Lean in Healthcare: the route to dramatic improvement
  • Lean and Six Sigma: where to start
  • Understanding and analysing patient and process flows at clinical service delivery level
  • Engaging clinicians and frontline staff in Lean Six Sigma
  • Lean management driving improvement in patient experience
  • Lean thinking: demonstrating quality outcomes improvement
  • Delivering rapid improvement at directorate level
  • Lean thinking on the ward: releasing time and care
  • Lean and patient safety

Click here to download a copy of the conference programme and to book online.

Event: Building better performing delivery systems
18th – 20th May 2009 – Minneapolis Convention Center, USA
This conference is being run by the Quality Institute for Healthcare, and will run in tandem with the 2009 World Conference on Quality and Improvement. This event features workshops on the many topics, including:

  • Improved community health
  • Improved value to patients and payers
  • Lean
  • Patient flow and queuing
  • Six sigma

Click here for more information.

Tools

Trigger tool for measuring adverse drug events
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) has developed this tool as an easy-to-use method for accurately identifying adverse drug events (ADEs) and measuring the rate of ADEs over time. Click here to read more and to use the tool.

Research

Systematic review on quality control for drug management programs: is quality reported in the literature?
AP Holtorf, C McAdam-Marx, D Schaaf, B Eng, G Oderda
BMC Health Services Research, 2009, 9:38
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Relation of study quality, concordance, take home message, funding, and impact in studies of influenza vaccines: systematic review
T Jefferson, C Di Pietrantonj, MG Debalini, A Rivetti, V Demicheli
British Medical Journal, 2009, 12th February, 338, b354
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Prognosis and prognostic research: what, why, and how?
KGM Moons, P Royston, Y Vergouwe, DE Grobbee, DG Altman
British Medical Journal, 2009, 338, b375
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Measurement of integrated healthcare delivery: a systematic review of methods and future research directions
M Strandberg-Larsen, A Krasnik
International Journal of Integrated Care, 4th February 2009
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Health Informatics

How to successfully select and implement electronic health records (EHR) in small ambulatory practice settings
NM Lorenzi, A Kouroubali, DE Detmer, M Bloomrosen
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2009, 9:15
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Benefits of information technology training to National Health Service staff in Wales
DL Warm, SE Thomas, VR Heard, VJ Jones, TM Hawkins-Brown
Learning in Health and Social Care, 2009, 8(1), pp70-80
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Innovation

Case studies of innovation in patient-centred healthcare
Managers in Partnership has produced three videos to show health managers at work in their teams and working with service users. They showcase innovative projects that embody the spirit and principles set out in the new NHS Constitution. Click here to read more and see the videos.

Education

Applying findings from a systematic review of workplace-based e-learning: implications for health information professionals
A Booth, C Carroll, D Papioannou, A Sutton, R Wong
Health Information and Libraries Journal, 2009, 26(1), pp4-21
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A case study for teaching information literacy skills
KV Kingsley, K Kingsley
BMC Medical Education, 2009, 9:7
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Knowledge Improvement

Consultation: Common assessment framework for adults: a consultation on proposals to improve information sharing around multi-disciplinary assessment and care planning
Department of Health 2009
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Scope, strategy and structure: the dynamics of knowledge networks in medicine
D Consoli, R Ramlogan
Unpublished paper from the University of Munich, 2009
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Quality Improvement

Clinicians in quality improvement: a new career pathway in academic medicine
KG Shojania, W Levinson
Journal of the American Medical Association, 2009, 301(7), pp766-768
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Quality of care: measuring up the NHS
Nigel Hawkes
British Medical Journal, 2009, 18th February
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An innovative telemedicine knowledge translation program to improve quality of care in intensive care units: protocol for a cluster randomized pragmatic trial
DC Scales, K Dainty, B Hales, R Pinto, RA Fowler, NKJ Adhikari, M Zwarenstein
Implementation Science, 2009, 4:5
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A cluster randomized controlled trial aimed at implementation of local quality improvement collaboratives to improve prescribing and test ordering performance of general practitioners: study protocol
J Trietsch, T van der Weijden, W Verstappen, R Janknegt, P Muijrers, R Winkens, B van Steenkiste, R Grol, J Metsemakers
Implementation Science, 2009, 4:6
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Patient Safety

Patient safety investigations, the need for interprofessional learning
A Wakefield, C Carlisle, A Hall, M Attree
Learning in Health and Social Care, 2009, 8(1), pp22-32
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Patient Safety First Campaign
The Patient Safety First Campaign has been created to change the culture within the NHS; to one that makes the safety of patients the highest priority and makes all avoidable death and harm unacceptable. This site contains details of interventions and The Quick Guide to Implementing Improvement.

Service Improvement

Profiles in improvement
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement is producing an ongoing series of audio profiles of front-line improvers. This edition is by John Senders of the University of Toronto. Click here to read more about these profiles and to listen to them.

Planning for scale: a guide for designing large-scale improvement initiatives
CJ McCannon, MW Schall, RJ Perla
Institute for Healthcare Improvement, 2008
This white paper is a preparation tool which is meant to guide conversation and thinking prior to the launch of a large-scale improvement effort. Click here to access the white paper – free registration is required.

The NHS Constitution
Department of Health, 2009
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Thursday, 12 February 2009

Events

Event: Evidence for policy, practice and personal decisions
March 2009 – 4 one-day workshops – EPPI-Centre, Social Science Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of London
This course will enable participants to conduct and use research collaboratively, in order to promote change for better health, education or well-being. This course is available as stand-alone or as part of the MSc in Evidence for Public Policy and Practice. Click here to read more.

Event: Methods for Research Synthesis
May 2009 – 4 one-day workshops – EPPI-Centre, Social Science Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of London
This course will enable participants to learn methods for conducting academic or policy-relevant research. This course is available as stand-alone or as part of the MSc in Evidence for Public Policy and Practice. Click here to read more.

Event: 5th International Conference of Evidence Based Health Care Teachers and Developers: Models of practice in hospital and primary care
28th October – 1st November 2009 – Taormina, Italy
Meet teachers and developers from around the world in a 3-day program aimed at anyone involved in teaching or developing evidence-based health care. Click here for more information.

Event: Health impact assessment training course
8th – 12th June 2009 – Liverpool
This 5 day course is being run by the University of Liverpool and IMPACT – the international health impact assessment consortium, and costs £795 or £700 if received before 31st March 2009. Course content includes:

  • Understanding HIA
  • Methods
  • Procedures
  • Evaluation
  • Prioritisation
  • Making it happen

Click here for more information.

Event: International Forum on Quality and Safety in Health Care
17th – 20th March 2009 – Berlin, Germany
The International Forum on Quality and Safety in Health Care is now in its 14th successful year, with conferences held at different locations around the world since 1996. The forum is presented by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) and BMJ Group. Major themes this year include:

  • Patient safety
  • Transforming whole health systems
  • Improving both cost and quality
  • Improvement methods
  • Training young health professionals and existing staff in quality improvement

To view the full program and to register online, click here.

Research

Strengthening the Reporting of Genetic Association Studies (STREGA) – an extension of the STROBE statement
J Little, JPT Higgins, JPA Ioannidis, D Moher, F Gagnon, E von Elm, MJ Khoury, B Cohen, G Davey-Smith, J Grimshaw, P Scheet, M Gwinn, RE Williamson, GY Zou, K Hutchings, CY Johnson, V Tait, M Wiens, J Golding, C van Duijn, J McLaughlin, A Paterson, G Wells, I Fortier, M Freedman, M Zecevic, R King, C Infante-Rivard, A Stewart, N Birkett, J Little
PLoS Medicine, 6(2), e1000022-S
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What should be done to tackle ghostwriting in the medical literature?
PC Gotzsche, JP Kassirer, KL Woolley, E Wager, A Jacobs, A Gertel, C Hamilton
PLoS Medicine, 6(2), e1000023
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Systematic reviews: CRD’s guidance for undertaking reviews in health care
CRD’s [Centre for Reviews and Dissemination] has published this guidance for undertaking evidence synthesis based on a thorough understanding of systematic review methodology. Click here to access this document.

Health Informatics

Clinical information technologies and inpatient outcomes: a multiple hospital study
R Amarasingham, L Plantinga, M Diener-West, DJ Gaskin, NR Powe
Archives of Internal Medicine, 2009, 169(2), pp108-114
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The influence of context and process when implementing e-health
D Boddy, G King, JS Clark, D Heaney, F Mair
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2009, 9:9
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Lessons Learned

Across the pond – lessons from the US on integrated healthcare
Richard Gleave
Nuffield Trust 2009
This report combines first-hand observations of how integrated care operates ‘across the pond’ in the United States, with suggested lessons for the UK’s health system. Click here for more.

Knowledge Improvement

Guide to knowledge transfer: designed for researchers in occupational health and safety
C Faye, M Lortie, L Desmarais
2008
This is a very comprehensive description of knowledge transfer, including, definitions, success factors, steps and strategies. Click here to read the full document.

Preserving professional credibility: grounded theory study of medical trainees’ requests for clinical support
TJT Kennedy, G Regehr, GR Baker, L Lingard
British Medical Journal, 2009, 338, b128
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Decision Making

Barriers to implementation of a computerized decision support system for depression: an observational report on lessons learned in “real world” clinical settings
MH Trivedi, EJ Daly, JK Kern, BD Grannemann, P Sunderajan, CA Claassen
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Do decision support systems influence variation in prescription?
JD de Jong, PP Groenewegen, P Spreeuwenberg, GP Westert, DH de Bakker
BMC Health Services Research, 2009, 9:20
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Patient Safety

Editorials: Surgical safety checklists
British Medical Journal, 2009, 338, 21 Jan, b220
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Evidence Based Practice

Do knowledge infrastructure facilities support evidence-based practice in occupational health? An exploratory study across countries among occupational physicians enrolled on EBM courses
NIR Hugenholtz, K Nieuwenhuijsen, JK Sluiter, FJH van Dijk
BMC Health Services Research, 2009, 9:18
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