This issue includes items on COVID-19, chronic disease management, treatment of low back pain, patient complaints, resource allocation, root cause analysis (RCA), surgical ‘never events’, coronial reports, and more.
Also covered are the latest issues of The Journal for Healthcare Quality, Journal of Patient Safety and Risk Management, Public Health Research & Practice and Healthcare Policy, along with the latest online papers from BMJ Quality and Safety and the International Journal for Quality in Health Care.
What do clinicians need to know?
Purpose
To ensure that women who experience a third or fourth degree perineal tear receive appropriate follow-up care after leaving hospital, to optimise their physical, emotional, psychological and sexual health. To ensure that appropriate referral pathways are in place.
Purpose
The purpose of this checklist is to assist assessors when reviewing meeting minutes and other documentation during an assessment of clinical governance in a health service organisation. It provides a guide to the types of data that governing bodies should be reviewing.