Article
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Victoria L. Chuen, Adrian C. H. Chan, Jin Ma, Shabbir M. H. Alibhai, Vicky Chau
Summary: The study found a higher frequency of delirium documentation in discharge summaries than previously reported, but the quality remains subpar. Medical services document delirium with higher quality, while surgical specialties document the term delirium more frequently. Improvement in the documentation of delirium in discharge summaries is needed to meet quality standards.
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Luke Glover, Georgia Wright, Simon Brackley, Miles Edwards, Lauren Eddy
Summary: A study was conducted to address the issue of delayed discharge summaries in hospitals, using an electronic patient record system to identify areas for improvement. Despite targeted interventions not being sustained, successful or fully implemented, the data collected can provide insights into reasons for poor performance and serve as targets for future interventions, demonstrating great potential for sustainability.
CUREUS JOURNAL OF MEDICAL SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Obstetrics & Gynecology
Kelechi Ikeri, Vilmaris Quinones Cardona, Ogechukwu R. Menkiti
Summary: Standardizing the NBS collection processes by adopting a sample collection window and same day courier pickup ensures timely specimen transit without adversely affecting the quality of samples collected, leading to a significant increase in the percentage of samples received within 1 day of collection.
JOURNAL OF PERINATOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Medical Informatics
Jared A. Shenson, Ivana Jankovic, Hyo Jung Hong, Benjamin Weia, Lee White, Jonathan H. Chen, Matthew Eisenberg
Summary: This study establishes an IT council led by housestaff to engage them in hospital informatics initiatives and promote professional development. In the first year, five housestaff co-chairs and 50 members were recruited, completing over 15 projects with substantial improvements for more than 1,300 housestaff.
APPLIED CLINICAL INFORMATICS
(2021)
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Kun Wang, Zhigang Chen, Lizhong Zhang, Jiaqi Liu, Bin Li
Summary: In crowdsensing, the randomness of participants' movement and the selfishness and dishonesty of individuals affect the uncertainty of the collected sensing data quality. Therefore, it is important to design a reasonable incentive mechanism to ensure stability. This paper proposes an incentive mechanism based on sunk cost (IMBSC) that motivates participants to improve data quality by stimulating the sunk cost effect.
Article
Oncology
Han'e Yue, Xianli Liu
Summary: The study found that timeliness incentive nursing can effectively improve postoperative rehabilitation of patients with cervical spondylotic myelopathy, reduce pain, decrease the incidence of complications, improve quality of life, and increase nursing satisfaction.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Economics
Lu Wang, Henry Liu, Dan Wang, Laura Florez-Perez
Summary: Managing the service quality of toll roads delivered by using Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) is challenging and the absence of critical research in this area has made it even more difficult for governments worldwide to engender and enact effective incentive strategies. This paper proposes an enhanced model to examine the impacts of different incentive strategies on transport project performance and provides insights for decision-making in incentivizing transport asset operations.
SOCIO-ECONOMIC PLANNING SCIENCES
(2023)
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Madoka Hayashi, Theresa R. Grover, Steve Small, Tessa Staples, Genie Roosevelt
Summary: Through a multidisciplinary approach, timely HBV administration was significantly improved and sustained, with almost no infants discharged home without receiving HBV. Pharmacists as champions and BPAs were critical to the success of our intervention.
BMJ QUALITY & SAFETY
(2021)
Article
Otorhinolaryngology
Peng You, Jimmy Liu, Louise Moist, Kevin Fung, Julie E. Strychowsky
Summary: This study aims to improve the distribution rate of discharge summaries within 48 hours of patient discharge through a quality improvement initiative. The interventions of education and engagement, auto-authentication, and audit with feedback significantly increased the distribution rate, which was sustained over time.
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Samit Patel, Isabel Utting, Wan Wei Ang, Tessa Fautz, Rebecca Radmore, Panayiota Vourou, Lara Beaumont, Paula Ryeland, Ashling Lillis
Summary: This article discusses a quality improvement project aimed at enhancing patient-centered care by improving the quality of discharge summaries (DCS). The team implemented various interventions, including the development of a new template, educational initiatives, and quarterly audits. The results showed significant improvements in the quality of DCS and positive feedback from General Practitioners.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RISK & SAFETY IN MEDICINE
(2022)
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Richard Thomas Richmond, Isobel Joy McFadzean, Pramodh Vallabhaneni
Summary: By implementing Kotter's 'eight-step model for change,' the hospital was able to clear the backlog of discharge summaries within 9 months and significantly improve the completion rate within 2 months. This successful quality improvement project demonstrates the positive impact on patient care and administrative burden reduction.
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Swapnil Patel, Abbas Alshami, Steven Douedi, Natasha Campbell, Mohammad Hossain, Arman Mushtaq, Dana Tarina, Brett Sealove, David Kountz, Kim Carpenter, Ellen Angelo, Vito Buccellato, Kenneth Sable, Elliot Frank, Arif Asif
Summary: JSUMC implemented a series of interventions, such as root cause analysis and obstacle interventions, which successfully reduced hospital length of stay and saved medical costs.
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Abdullatif Yasir H. Eissa, Ahmed Zaki W. Mohamed Elhassan, Almothanna Zaki H. Ahmed, Ammar Elgadi, Gaffar Alemam A. Manhal, Mohamed H. Fadul, Mohamed Ishag Ahmed, Abdalla Fadul, Islah Ismail Mekki
Summary: The study found issues with the quality of discharge summaries at Al-Shaab Hospital, including lack of necessary information, inadequate filling, and non-compliance with international guidelines. Patients also had limited knowledge of their discharge information. Therefore, it is necessary to propose a newly designed discharge summary form that meets international standards and improve the discharge interviews to ensure that patients have a full understanding of their condition.
CUREUS JOURNAL OF MEDICAL SCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Phoebe Scarfield, Thomas David Shepherd, Caitriona Stapleton, Alexandra Starks, Ellen Benn, Sara Khalid, Bryony Dayment, Alex Moate, Sandra Mohamed, Jasmine Lee
Summary: Discharge summaries are important medical documents for summarizing a patient's hospital admission. This project successfully increased the compliance of discharge summaries by implementing improvement measures, which helped to address the variations in quality and content.
Article
Management
Seung Ho Yoo, Thomas Y. Choi, DaeSoo Kim
Summary: The study shows that proactive strategies are more effective in improving quality, demand, and profit compared to reactive strategies. Among proactive strategies, the parallel incentive strategy of centrally controlling both S1 and S2 performs the best, yielding superior quality and profit outcomes for the supply chain. However, the reactive strategy may be more suitable if the FA's profitability is lower than that of the S1 or S2.
Article
Surgery
G. Y. Im, L. Kim-Schluger, A. Shenoy, E. Schubert, A. Goel, S. L. Friedman, S. Florman, T. D. Schiano
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TRANSPLANTATION
(2016)
Letter
Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Aparna Goel, Norah Terrault
LIVER TRANSPLANTATION
(2015)
Article
Gastroenterology & Hepatology
J. Torres, X. Bao, A. Goel, J. -F. Colombel, J. Pekow, B. Jabri, K. M. Williams, A. Castillo, J. A. Odin, K. Meckel, F. Fasihuddin, I. Peter, S. Itzkowitz, J. Hu
ALIMENTARY PHARMACOLOGY & THERAPEUTICS
(2016)
Editorial Material
Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Audrey Menezes, Aparna Goel, Gina Sam
Meeting Abstract
Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Colin Feuille, Aparna Goel, Jennifer Sanchez, Lismeiry Paulino, Brijen Shah, Douglas Dieterich, Ponni V. Perumalswami
Article
Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Neil Mehta, Jennifer L. Dodge, Aparna Goel, John Paul Roberts, Ryutaro Hirose, Francis Y. Yao
LIVER TRANSPLANTATION
(2013)
Article
Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Aparna Goel, Neil Mehta, Jennifer Guy, Nicholas Fidelman, Francis Yao, John Roberts, Norah Terrault
LIVER TRANSPLANTATION
(2014)
Review
Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Aparna Goel, Allison Kwong
LIVER TRANSPLANTATION
(2023)
Article
Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Omar Alshuwaykh, Tami Daugherty, Amanda Cheung, Aparna Goel, Renumathy Dhanasekaran, T. Tara Ghaziani, Aijaz Ahmed, Deepti Dronamraju, Radhika Kumari, Allison Kwong, Mindie Nguyen, W. Ray Kim, Paul Yien Kwo
Summary: Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is a major risk factor for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). This study found that untreated compensated cirrhosis patients with undetectable HBV DNA had higher rates of HCC than those receiving treatment.
HEPATOLOGY COMMUNICATIONS
(2022)
Article
Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Omar Alshuwaykh, Allison Kwong, Aparna Goel, Amanda Cheung, Renumathy Dhanasekaran, Aijaz Ahmed, Tami Daugherty, Deepti Dronamraju, Radhika Kumari, W. Ray Kim, Carlos O. Esquivel, Waldo Concepcion, Marc Melcher, Andy Bonham, Thomas Pham, Amy Gallo, Paul Yien Kwo
Summary: This study assessed factors influencing successful liver transplant evaluation in patients with cirrhosis requiring urgent inpatient evaluation, and found that psychosocial factors were the main reason for transplant rejection. Hispanic race, Asian race, and non-Hispanic ethnicity were predictors for successful liver transplant outcomes.
HEPATOLOGY COMMUNICATIONS
(2021)
Review
Gastroenterology & Hepatology
A. Goel, U. Rahim, L. H. Nguyen, C. Stave, M. H. Nguyen
ALIMENTARY PHARMACOLOGY & THERAPEUTICS
(2017)