Browsing General Practice by Issue Date
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Hand hygiene compliance in the intensive care unit: A systematic review
(Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2019-09)Abstract Objectives: To synthesize the literature describing compliance with World Health Organization hand hygiene guidelines in ICUs, to evaluate the quality of extant research, and to examine differences in compliance ... -
Initial psychometric evaluation of a psychological resilience measure for physicians
(Taylor and Francis, 2019-10-20)Measures of Psychological Resilience (PR) for use with physician populations are lacking. The objective of this study is to develop and assess the validity and internal consistency of a survey designed to measure the ... -
A mixed-methods exploration of the educational climate and safety climate during the first year of clinical practice in Ireland
(Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2019-11)Purpose Educational climate (EC) and safety climate (SC) are key determinants of residents’ professional development. The goal of this study was to gather longitudinal EC data and data on perceptions of SC in residency, ... -
A systematic review of patient complaints about general practice
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2019-11-19)Objective This review aimed to synthesize the extant research on complaints in general practice. Methods Five electronic databases were searched: Medline, Web of Science, CINAHL, PsycINFO and Academic Search Complete. ... -
A systematic review of patient complaints about general practice.
(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2019-11-19)Health care complaints are an underutilized resource for quality and safety improvement. Most research on health care complaints is focused on secondary care. However, there is also a need to consider patient safety in ... -
The effect of operator position on the quality of chest compressions delivered in a simulated ambulance
(Cambridge University Press, 2019-12-09)Background: Ambulances are where patient care is often initiated or maintained, but this setting poses safety risks for paramedics. Paramedics have found that in order to optimize patient care, they must compromise their ... -
ASPiH Conference 2019 keynote paper. Quality improvement through simulation: a missed opportunity?
(BMJ Publishing Group, 2020-03-04)As the use of simulation has become more established in the delivery of healthcare education and training, there has been a corresponding increase in healthcare simulation research. Simulation-based research can be divided ... -
The application of human reliability analysis to three critical care procedures
(Elsevier, 2020-07-10)Background: Procedures carried out in the intensive care unit are prone to human error. Standardisation has been suggested as an approach for reducing errors. This study used human reliability analysis methodologies to ... -
A toolkit for improving hand hygiene compliance in intensive care
(National University of Ireland Galway, 2020-10-15)A toolkit to help intensive care units to identify how they can improve hand hygiene compliance. -
National strategic guide for the implementation of simulation on clinical sites
(National University of Ireland Galway, 2021-06)[No abstract available] -
An introduction to human factors for healthcare workers
(Health Services Executive, 2021-11-20)This document: (1) provides a comprehensive overview of human factors; (2) supports healthcare workers to identify the human factors issues in their workplace; (3) supports the identification of the human factors contributors ... -
A systematic review of the use of positive deviance approaches in primary care
(Oxford University Press, 2021-11-25)Abstract Background: The Positive Deviance (PD) approach focuses on identifying and learning from those who demonstrate exceptional performance despite facing similar resource constraints to others. Recently, it has been ... -
Learning from complaints about hospital care
(National University of Ireland Galway, 2022)Complaints are often seen as a negative experience in healthcare, with patients or family members writing about poor experiences of care, or things that went wrong. These things that go wrong may be small issues or ... -
Analysing complaints about primary care with the healthcare complaints analysis tool (General Practice): A user’s guide
(National University of Ireland Galway, 2022-01)General practice is a vital aspect of the health service, with large numbers of patient contacts every year1. While general practice is often seen as inherently less risky than secondary care2, errors have been found to ... -
A compendium of the steps required to complete 13 essential procedural skills
(University of Galway, 2022-09)Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) are units of professional practice that capture essential competencies in which trainees must become proficient before undertaking them independently. EPAs provide supervisors ...