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Deepening our understanding of quality improvement in Europe (DUQUE)
Date du début: 1 nov. 2009, Date de fin: 31 août 2013,
Context Hospitals in European countries apply a wide range of quality improvement strategies; however, knowledge on the effectiveness of these strategies is limited. Objectives We propose to study the effectiveness of quality improvement systems in European hospitals. Specific research objectives are: a) to develop a maturity classification model for the assessment of organizational quality improv ...
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Improving the Continuity of patient care Through Identification and implementation of Novel patient handoff processes in Europe (HANDOVER)
Date du début: 1 oct. 2008, Date de fin: 30 sept. 2011,
Research has shown that every year 30,000 European patients suffer preventable harm during treatment. It is estimated there were potentially 1,735 avoidable deaths in 2004. The financial cost of avoidable adverse events is reckoned at €167 million, 1% of hospitals’ total budget, due to longer hospital stays and additional treatment. Many of these adverse events relate to handoff in care. Poor cont ...
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Improving the continuity of patient care through teaching and researching novel patient handover processes in Europe
Date du début: 1 oct. 2012,
Handover is the accurate, reliable communication of task-relevant information between doctors and patients and from one care-giver to another. This occurs in many situations in health care. Improperly conducted handovers lead to wrong treatment, delays in medical diagnosis, life threatening adverse events, increased health care expenditure, increased hospital length of stay and a range of other ef ...
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