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Research Development
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Abstract Urgent and emergency care services face increasing pressure, impacting patient care. We evaluated the performance of acute medicine services, assessing clinical quality indicators for unplanned medical admissions to acute hospital services. 152 acute UK hospital services accepting unplanned admissions to acute and general internal medicine completed a day-of-care survey incorporating..
Published: | 01/12/2023 |
Authors: | Varia R |
Abstract Patient reported experience measures (PREMS) are a key part of measured quality. There is no tool currently used in the UK in Acute Medicine. On the 8th of September 2022 10 units based in England, Scotland and Wales collected data for the validated PREM, alongside the EQ-5D and variables from..
Published: | 23/09/2023 |
Authors: | Varia R |
Abstract Urgent and emergency care services face increasing pressure, impacting patient care. We evaluated the performance of acute medicine services, assessing clinical quality indicators for unplanned medical admissions to acute hospital services. 152 acute UK hospital services accepting unplanned admissions to acute and general internal medicine completed a day-of-care survey incorporating..
Published: | 03/08/2023 |
Authors: | Varia R |
Introduction The SAM Quality Improvement Committee (SAM-QI), set up in 2016, has worked over the last year to determine the priority Acute Medicine QI topics. They have also discussed and put forward proposals to improve QI training for Acute Medicine professionals. Methods A modified Delphi process was completed over four rounds..
Published: | 09/06/2022 |
Authors: | Varia R, Rigby A |
Introduction The Society for Acute Medicine Benchmarking Audit 2021 (SAMBA21) took place on 17th June 2021, providing the first assessment of performance against the Society for Acute Medicine's Clinical Quality Indicators (CQIs) within acute medical units since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods All acute hospitals in the UK were invited..
Published: | 28/03/2022 |
Authors: | Varia R |
Introduction Medical admissions to hospital represent a diverse range of patients, from those managed on ambulatory pathways through Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) services, to those requiring prolonged inpatient admission. An understanding of current patterns of admission through acute medicine services and patient factors associated with longer hospital admission is..
Published: | 28/03/2022 |
Authors: | Varia R |
Abstract Acute Medicine is a specialty that is not defined by a single organ system and sits at the interface between primary and secondary care. In order to document improvements in the quality of care delivered a system of metrics is required. A number of frameworks for measurements exist to..
Published: | 06/07/2021 |
Authors: | Varia R |
Introduction Pneumonia continues to be associated with significant mortality.1 The diagnostic gold standard remains the Chest X-Ray (CXR). Quality indicators such as door-to-antibiotic or door-to-radiograph time are monitored as surrogate outcome measures. Objective To assess the impact of CXR availability at first clinician contact in cases where initial antibiotics were..
Published: | 19/07/2016 |
Authors: | Varia R, Ashton A |
Introduction A medical emergency team (MET) was introduced in our institution in January 2012 to provide timely response to the needs of acutely ill inpatients and cardiac arrest calls. The MET assesses the patient and prescribes a management plan for the responsible team to follow; promptly stabilising and transferring patients to..
Published: | 19/07/2016 |
Authors: | Elmore J, Mahambrey T, Tridente A, Varia R |
Background We observed a high number of patients admitted with suspected pulmonary embolism (PE) via our acute medical unit. After positive diagnosis, they remained as inpatients until their International Normalised Ratio (INR) was in range resulting in long lengths of stay - Median (range) 7 (0 to 52) days. Recently, there has been..
Published: | 19/07/2016 |
Authors: | Varia R |
Introduction The annual incidence of Community acquired pneumonia (CAP) is 5–11/1000. Between 22% and 42% require admission to hospital. Wide variation exists in the management of CAP despite guidelines issued by the British Thoracic Society (BTS). Care bundles have been shown to improve outcomes through standardisation of care in other diseases as well..
Published: | 19/07/2016 |
Authors: | Varia R |
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