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{"title":"Quality improvement collaborative to increase access to caesarean sections: lessons from Bihar, India.","authors":"Abha Mehndiratta, Prabir Ranjan Moharana, Tanmay Mahapatra, Sridhar Srikantiah, Sunil Babu, Sarita Simba, Sanjiv Daulatrao, Vikas Pandey, Rahul Shastri, Srinivas Kodiyath, Sulagna Mukherjee, Pramod Sah, Pierre Barker","doi":"10.1136/bmjqs-2024-017454","DOIUrl":"10.1136/bmjqs-2024-017454","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Countries with resource-poor health systems have struggled to improve access to and the quality of caesarean section (C-section; CS) for women seeking care in public health facilities. Access to C-section in Bihar State remains very low, while access has increased in many other contexts.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We used quality improvement (QI) combined with targeted resource management to test and implement changes that were designed to increase C-section delivery. We compared C-section delivery percentages after the interventions across eight intervened (QI) hospitals and between QI hospitals and the remaining 22 non-intervened (non-QI) hospitals with baseline CS <10%. We linked patterns of improvement and sustainability to theoretical drivers of improvement and timing of interventions.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>In QI hospitals, C-section percentage increased from 2.9% at baseline to 5.9% in the intervention phase and 4.6% in the post intervention phase. In non-QI hospitals, we observed a small change (2.6-3.3%) during the same time period of the interventions in the QI hospitals. Addition of skilled personnel resulted in increased C-section percentage in QI hospitals (3.6-5.9%) but not non-QI hospitals (3.4-3.2%).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>C-section availability increased for a population of women giving birth following initiation of QI BTS collaborative in a low-income country public sector setting that has historically struggled to provide this service. Addition of obstetric and operating room resources alone, without interventions to support system changes, may not result in additional increase in C-section delivery. The adaptive implementation model may contribute to efforts to provide more access to C-sections in other very resource-limited settings.</p>","PeriodicalId":9077,"journal":{"name":"BMJ Quality & Safety","volume":" ","pages":"404-412"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12171458/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143466543","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Variation in the use of primary care-led investigations prior to a cancer diagnosis: analysis of the National Cancer Diagnosis Audit.","authors":"Nurunnahar Akter, Georgios Lyratzopoulos, Ruth Swann, Greg Rubin, Sean McPhail, Meena Rafiq, Abodunrin Aminu, Nadine Zakkak, Gary Abel","doi":"10.1136/bmjqs-2024-017264","DOIUrl":"10.1136/bmjqs-2024-017264","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Use of investigations can help support the diagnostic process of patients with cancer in primary care, but the size of variation between patient group and between practices is unclear.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We analysed data on 53 252 patients from 1868 general practices included in the National Cancer Diagnosis Audit 2018 using a sequence of logistic regression models to quantify and explain practice-level variation in investigation use, accounting for patient-level case-mix and practice characteristics. Four types of investigations were considered: any investigation, blood tests, imaging and endoscopy.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Large variation in practice use was observed (OR for 97.5th to 2.5th centile being 4.02, 4.33 and 3.12, respectively for any investigation, blood test and imaging). After accounting for patient case-mix, the spread of practice variation increased further to 5.61, 6.30 and 3.60 denoting that patients with characteristics associated with higher use (ie, certain cancer sites) are over-represented among practices with lower than the national average use of such investigation. Practice characteristics explained very little of observed variation, except for rurality (rural practices having lower use of any investigation) and concentration of older age patients (practices with older patients being more likely to use all types of investigations).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>There is very large variation between practices in use of investigation in patients with cancer as part of the diagnostic process. It is conceivable that the diagnostic process can be improved if investigation use was to be increased in lower use practices, although it is also possible that there is overtesting in practices with very high use of investigations, and in fact both undertesting and overtesting may co-exist.</p>","PeriodicalId":9077,"journal":{"name":"BMJ Quality & Safety","volume":" ","pages":"367-376"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12171502/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142494913","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Learning from an allied health perspective on quality and safety.","authors":"Nicole Müller, Amr El Refaie, Margaret McGrath, Joseph McVeigh","doi":"10.1136/bmjqs-2024-018107","DOIUrl":"10.1136/bmjqs-2024-018107","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9077,"journal":{"name":"BMJ Quality & Safety","volume":" ","pages":"361-363"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143656070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Developing the allied health professionals workforce within mental health, learning disability and autism inpatient services: rapid review of learning from quality and safety incidents.","authors":"Ceri Wilson, Rachel Wakefield, Louise Prothero, Gillian Janes, Fiona Nolan, Sally Fowler-Davis","doi":"10.1136/bmjqs-2024-017746","DOIUrl":"10.1136/bmjqs-2024-017746","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Allied health professionals (AHPs) in inpatient mental health, learning disability and autism services work in cultures dominated by other professions who often poorly understand their roles. Furthermore, identified learning from safety incidents often lacks focus on AHPs and research is needed to understand how AHPs contribute to safe care in these services.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A rapid literature review was conducted on material published from February 2014 to February 2024, reporting safety incidents within adult inpatient mental health, learning disability and autism services in England, with identifiable learning for AHPs. 115 reports/publications were included, predominantly consisting of independent investigations by NHS England, prevent future deaths reports and Care Quality Commission reports.</p><p><strong>Findings: </strong>Misunderstanding of AHP roles, from senior leadership to frontline staff, led to AHPs being disempowered and excluded from conversations/decisions, and patients not getting sufficient access to AHPs, contributing to safety incidents. A central thread 'organisational culture' ran through five subthemes: (1) (lack of) effective multidisciplinary team (MDT) working, evidenced by poor communication, siloed working, marginalisation of AHPs and a lack of psychological safety; (2) (lack of) AHP involvement in patient care including care and discharge planning, and risk assessment/management. Some MDTs had no AHPs, some recommendations by AHPs were not actioned and referrals to AHPs were not always made when indicated; (3) training needs were identified for AHPs and other professions; (4) staffing issues included understaffing of AHPs and (5) senior management and leadership were found to not value/understand AHP roles, and instil a blame culture. A need for cohesive, well-led and nurturing MDTs was emphasised.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Understanding and recognition of AHP roles is lacking at all levels of healthcare organisations. AHPs can be marginalised in MDTs, presenting risks to patients and missed opportunities for quality improvement. Raising awareness of the essential roles of AHPs is critical for improving quality and safety in inpatient mental health, learning disability and autism services.</p>","PeriodicalId":9077,"journal":{"name":"BMJ Quality & Safety","volume":" ","pages":"389-403"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12171516/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142909064","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Increasing surgical volumes in resource limited-healthcare systems: team-based quality improvement as a novel approach to quantity improvement.","authors":"Nobhojit Roy, Asad Latif","doi":"10.1136/bmjqs-2024-018296","DOIUrl":"10.1136/bmjqs-2024-018296","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9077,"journal":{"name":"BMJ Quality & Safety","volume":" ","pages":"364-366"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143728436","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Systems analysis of clinical incidents: development of a new edition of the London Protocol.","authors":"Charles Vincent, Dulcie Irving, Tommaso Bellandi, Helen Higham, Philippe Michel, Anthony Staines, Sally Adams, Jeff Brown, Peter Damian Hibbert, Carole Hemmelgarn, Lallu Joseph, Karina Pires, Susan Sheridan, Rosa Sunol, Shin Ushiro, Albert W Wu, Lucas Zambon","doi":"10.1136/bmjqs-2024-017987","DOIUrl":"10.1136/bmjqs-2024-017987","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The investigation of incidents and accidents, together with subsequent reflection and action, is an essential component of safety management in every safety-critical industry, including healthcare. A number of formal methods of incident analysis were developed in the early days of risk management and patient safety, including the London Protocol which was published in 2004. In this paper, we describe the development of a new edition of the London Protocol. We explain the need for a revised and expanded version of the London Protocol, addressing both the changes in healthcare in the last two decades and what has been learnt from the experience of incident analysis across the world. We describe a systematic process of development of the new edition drawing on the findings of a narrative review of incident analysis methods. The principal changes in the new edition are as follows: increased emphasis and guidance on the engagement of patients and families as partners in the investigation; giving more attention to the support of patients, families and staff in the aftermath of an incident; emphasising the value of a small number of in-depth analyses combined with thematic reviews of wider problems; including proposals and guidance for the examination of much longer time periods; emphasising the need to highlight good care as well as problems; adding guidance on direct observation of the work environment; providing a more structured and wide-ranging approach to recommendations and including more guidance on how to write safety incident reports. Finally, we offer some proposals to place research on incident analysis on a firmer foundation and make suggestions for the practice and implementation of incident investigation within safety management systems.</p>","PeriodicalId":9077,"journal":{"name":"BMJ Quality & Safety","volume":" ","pages":"413-420"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12171414/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143475957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Why tackling overuse will not succeed without changing our culture.","authors":"Rudolf Bertijn Kool, Andrea M Patey","doi":"10.1136/bmjqs-2024-018440","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjqs-2024-018440","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9077,"journal":{"name":"BMJ Quality & Safety","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143963463","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Patient portal messaging to address delayed follow-up for uncontrolled diabetes: a pragmatic, randomised clinical trial.","authors":"Arielle R Nagler, Leora Idit Horwitz, Aamina Ahmed, Amrita Mukhopadhyay, Isaac Dapkins, William King, Simon A Jones, Adam Szerencsy, Claudia Pulgarin, Jennifer Gray, Tony Mei, Saul Blecker","doi":"10.1136/bmjqs-2024-018249","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjqs-2024-018249","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Importance: </strong>Patients with poor glycaemic control have a high risk for major cardiovascular events. Improving glycaemic monitoring in patients with diabetes can improve morbidity and mortality.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong>To assess the effectiveness of a patient portal message in prompting patients with poorly controlled diabetes without a recent glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c) result to have their HbA1c repeated.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>A pragmatic, randomised clinical trial.</p><p><strong>Setting: </strong>A large academic health system consisting of over 350 ambulatory practices.</p><p><strong>Participants: </strong>Patients who had an HbA1c greater than 10% who had not had a repeat HbA1c in the prior 6 months.</p><p><strong>Exposures: </strong>A single electronic health record (EHR)-based patient portal message to prompt patients to have a repeat HbA1c test versus usual care.</p><p><strong>Main outcomes: </strong>The primary outcome was a follow-up HbA1c test result within 90 days of randomisation.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The study included 2573 patients with a mean (SD) HbA1c of 11.2%. Among 1317 patients in the intervention group, 24.2% had follow-up HbA1c tests completed within 90 days, versus 21.1% of 1256 patients in the control group (p=0.07). Patients in the intervention group were more likely to log into the patient portal within 60 days as compared with the control group (61.2% vs 52.3%, p<0.001).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Among patients with poorly controlled diabetes and no recent HbA1c result, a brief patient portal message did not significantly increase follow-up testing but did increase patient engagement with the patient portal. Automated patient messages could be considered as a part of multipronged efforts to involve patients in their diabetes care.</p>","PeriodicalId":9077,"journal":{"name":"BMJ Quality & Safety","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143979063","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Using implementation science to define the model and outcomes for improving quality in NEST360, a multicountry alliance for reducing newborn mortality in sub-Saharan Africa.","authors":"Kylie Dougherty, Nebiyou Hailemariam, Georgia Jenkins, Junwei Chen, Jackson Ilangali, John Mwangi, Julius Thomas, Hannah Mwaniki Mwaniki, Olabisi Dosunmu, Robert Tillya, Samuel Ngwala, Joy E Lawn, Rebecca Richards-Kortum, Z Maria Oden, Christine Bohne, Lisa R Hirschhorn","doi":"10.1136/bmjqs-2024-018471","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjqs-2024-018471","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Improving small and sick newborn care (SSNC) is crucial in resource-limited settings. Newborn Essential Solutions and Technologies (NEST360), a multicountry alliance, aims to reduce newborn mortality through evidence-based interventions. NEST360 developed a multipronged approach to improving quality. We use implementation research (IR) to describe this approach and report emerging implementation outcomes.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The implementation research logic model (IRLM) was applied to link contextual factors, implementation strategies, mechanisms and implementation outcomes, capturing successes and challenges of the improving quality approach. Data sources included programme data, peer-reviewed publications and team input. Contextual factors were organised by the NEST360-UNICEF SSNC implementation toolkit. Strategies were grouped by the Expert Recommendations for Implementation Change list, and implementation outcomes were measured using Proctor's implementation outcomes.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We developed an IRLM to describe the implementation of NEST360's improving quality model. This IRLM included 33 contextual factors; 42% were barriers, 42% were facilitators, and 15% were both a barrier and facilitator. Additionally, we identified 10 implementation strategies that NEST360 used. The logic model also describes the connections between the contextual factors, the strategies that address them, and the preliminary implementation outcomes. Examples of the outcomes measured include <i>Reach</i> with 100% of units logging into the NEST360-Implementation Tracker (NEST-IT) at least once (October 2023 to March 2024), <i>Adoption</i> with 100% of units conducting a quality improvement (QI) project (April 2024 to June 2024), and <i>Feasibility</i> with 93% of units reporting NEST-IT data in their QI project documentation (April 2024 to June 2024). Finally, this study identified sustainability strategies as a critical need.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Integrating IR and QI enhances SSNC in resource-limited settings. Addressing barriers, leveraging facilitators and using structured IR frameworks advanced QI efforts, thereby improving intervention reach, adoption and feasibility while building scalable systems for high-quality healthcare.</p>","PeriodicalId":9077,"journal":{"name":"BMJ Quality & Safety","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143979155","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Unreasonable effectiveness of training AI models locally.","authors":"Gabriel Wardi, Christopher A Longhurst","doi":"10.1136/bmjqs-2025-018543","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjqs-2025-018543","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9077,"journal":{"name":"BMJ Quality & Safety","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143962029","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}