Introduction: The Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) Tallaght Report of 2012 found care lodged admitted patients on ED trolleys was undermined in terms quality safety. HIQA advised the practice lodging adjacent hospital corridors should be discontinued entirely. This message reiterated during pandemic. Some may spend total duration their admission an trolley. has 15 Adult rooms, se...

OBJECTIVE To develop a 'Transitions Journal' for inter-unit and inter-setting communication for improving quality and safety of care and patient satisfaction with timely, reliable and meaningful information for all stakeholders. DESIGN Front-line staff were targeted in a series of four team meetings through which this 'Journal' was developed iteratively; initially as a paper-based and subsequ...

CBaR: cardiac baroreflex response CPBG: 1-(m-chlorophenyl)-biguanide DMH: dorsomedial nucleus of the hypothalamus dPAG: dorsal part of the periaqueductal gray ECG: electrocardiogram HR: heart rate MBP: mean blood pressure NTS: nucleus tractus solitarius SBaR: sympathetic baroreflex response 3 ABSTRACT Different stressful conditions elicit a typical behaviour called the defense reaction. Our aim...

BACKGROUND The clinical environment in which health care providers have to work everyday is highly complex; this increases the risk for the occurrence of unintended events. The aim of this randomised controlled trial is to improve patient safety for a vulnerable group of patients that have to go through a complex care chain, namely elderly hip fracture patients. METHODS/DESIGN A randomised co...

Radiation therapy is one of the commonly used cancer therapies. The radiation treatment poses atuning problem: it needs to be effective enough to destroy the tumor, but it should maintain the func-tionality of the organs close to the tumor. Towards this goal the design of a radiation treatment has to becustomized for each patient. Part of this design are intensity matrices that defi...

Abstract Introduction In response to regional requirements and the ever–increasing complexity of needs patients, UOC Health Professions ULSS 2 Marca Trevigiana Company, in collaboration with team Cardiology Conegliano Hospital decided, year 2022, start a Field Training project (FSC) oriented towards implementation Modular Nursing (MN) specific context. Methods The involved all staff Cardiology,...

Objective: To identify strategies available in the scientific literature on effective communication among health professionals Neonatology. Methods: This is an integrative review carried out from April to August 2021, by consulting following databases: BDEnf, LILACS, IBECS, MEDLINE/PUBMED, Scopus and Science Direct. Studies whose titles abstracts were related promote safety Neonatology included...

INTRODUCTION Establishing continuity of care in handovers at changes of shift is a challenging endeavor that is jeopardized by time pressure and errors typically occurring during synchronous communication. Only if the outgoing and incoming persons manage to collaboratively build a common ground for the next steps of care is it possible to ensure a proper continuation. Electronic systems, in par...