SONAR is a code quality management platform, dedicated to continuously analyze and measure technical quality, from the projects portfolio to the class method.
Calculates various metrics for projects, packages and compilation units. Includes both simple counts like lines of code as well as more complex metrics such as the McCabe cyclomatic complexity.
We must optimize stent deployment & maintain a registry of how well (or poorly) we use drug-eluting stents. Instead of asking “Which stent?” or “How much anti-platelet therapy?” we must ask “How effectively are we deploying our stents?”
Design of Clinical Trials for Treatment of Pain, Development of Clinical Trials, Selected Qualitative Methods, Within-Patient Studies: Cross-over Trials & n-of-1 Studies, Clinical Economics, etc.
Die Qualitätsinitiative E-Learning in Deutschland (Q.E.D.) befasst sich mit der Qualität der Aus- und Weiterbildung unter besonderer Berücksichtigung von E-Learning. Durch die Förderung von Standards sowie deren Integration in die bestehenden Bildungs
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NHS England has today published an independent report into the deaths of people with a learning disability or mental health problem at Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, and highlighted a system-wide response.
To study the effects of scale type (visual analogue scale vs. Likert), item order (systematic vs. random), item non-response and patient-related characteristics (age, gender, subjective health, need for assistance with filling out the questionnaire and length of stay) on the results of patient satisfaction surveys. Login using your SSSFT NHS OpenAthens for full text. SSOTP - request a copy of the article from the library - www.sssft.nhs.uk/library
Improvements in health services require a range of technical skills, but like all complex organisational tasks they also rely on the personal skills and attitudes of the staff carrying out the changes. That much is axiomatic.1 2 3 Less certain, but surely potentially helpful to front-line staff undertaking improvement initiatives, is ascertaining just what might be the right sets of skills needed for different kinds of improvement tasks in varying circumstances.4 To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
Although the Commission has improved as an organisation, it needs to overcome some persistent issues with the timeliness of some of its regulation activities if it is to sustain further improvement.
Open access. Although previous research suggests that different kinds of patient feedback are used in different ways to help improve the quality of hospital care, there have been no studies of the ways in which hospital boards of directors use feedback for this purpose.
Open access. South West London and St George's Mental Health NHS Trust developed a system of weekend new patient reviews by higher trainees to provide senior medical input 7 days a week. To evaluate the effectiveness of these reviews, the notes for all patients admitted over 3 months were examined. The mean length of stay for patients before and after the introduction of the weekend new patient reviews were compared via unpaired t-test.
Despite concerns about the degree of compassion in contemporary healthcare, there is a dearth of evidence for health service managers about how to promote compassionate healthcare. This paper reports on the implementation of the Creating Learning Environments for Compassionate Care (CLECC) intervention by four hospital ward nursing teams. CLECC is a workplace educational intervention focused on developing sustainable leadership and work-team practices designed to support team relational capacity and compassionate care delivery. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
Open access. Editorial. Alongside concern about avoidable mortality, one of the key findings of the public enquiry into failings at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust,1 which ran Stafford Hospital in England, was the lack of compassion in care delivery. Sir Robert Francis, who led the enquiry, laid the blame for the compassion deficit at the door nursing and support staff. He recommended, among other things, that people should work as care assistants prior to nurse training and that values-based recruitment should be used to ensure that the ‘right’ people are recruited to be nurses. However, there has been little evidence to support these propositions. For example Snowden et al 2 found that nursing students who had previous care jobs scored no higher for emotional intelligence than those without prior experience.
Audit and feedback improves clinical care by highlighting the gap between current and ideal practice. We combined best practices of audit and feedback with continuously generated electronic health record data to improve performance on quality metrics in an inpatient setting.. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details.
North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust is among just a handful of organisations to feature in a new Care Quality Commission (CQC) report showcasing how mental health trusts have led by example in raising standards.
The CQC’s ‘Driving Improvement’ report focusses on a select few mental health trusts that, like Combined Healthcare, have achieved significant improvement in their CQC ratings.
During the weeks either side of the Easter holidays the Trust will focus on working differently, testing new ideas; and with local partners such as local authorities and other community providers keep ‘patient flow’ as smooth as possible.
This means resolving any blockages in a patient’s pathway on the same day to ensure the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital and the Princess Royal Hospital in Telford do not go into the following day with any unresolved patient issues.
This guideline covers assessing and reducing the risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE or blood clots) and deep vein thrombosis (DVT) in people aged 16 and over in hospital. It aims to help healthcare professionals identify people most at risk and describes interventions that can be used to reduce the risk of VTE.
England’s Chief Inspector of Hospitals has upgraded the rating of Lancashire Care NHS Foundation Trust from Requires Improvement to Good following a comprehensive inspection by the CQC in September 2016
England’s Chief Inspector of Hospitals has upgraded the rating of Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust from Requires Improvement to Good following an inspection by the Care Quality Commission in October 2016.
A. Textor, M. Schmid, J. Schaefer, and R. Kroeger. QUASOSS '09: Proceedings of the 1st international workshop on Quality of service-oriented software systems, page 47--54. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (2009)
J. Otterbacher. CHI '09: Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Human factors in computing systems, page 955--964. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (2009)
A. Kittur, and R. Kraut. CSCW '08: Proceedings of the ACM 2008 conference on Computer supported cooperative work, page 37--46. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (2008)