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Evidence-based organization and patient safety strategies in European hospitals

2014; Oxford University Press; Volume: 26; Issue: suppl 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1093/intqhc/mzu016

1464-3677

Rosa Suñol, Cordula Wagner, Onyebuchi A. Arah, C. Shaw, S. Kristensen, Caroline A. Thompson, Maral DerSarkissian, Paul Bartels, Holger Pfaff, M. Secanell, Núria Mora, F. Vlcek, Halina Kutaj–Wąsikowska, B. Kutryba, Philippe Michel, Oliver Groene, Niek Klazinga, Dionne Kringos, Kiki M. J. M. H. Lombarts, Thomas Plochg, María Andrée López Gómez, P. Vallejo, F. Saillour-Glénisson, Mate Car, S. Jones, E. Klaus, S. Bottaro, Pascal Garel, Mehmet Saluvan, Charles Bruneau, A. Depaigne-Loth, Anne E. Hammer, Oliver Ommen, Holger Pfaff, D. Botje, Ana Escoval, A. Livio, Margarida Eiras, M. França, Isabel Cristina de Moura Leite, F. Almeman, H. Kus, K. Ozturk, Russell Mannion, A. Wang, Alexandra Thompson,

Primary Care and Health Outcomes

To explore how European hospitals have implemented patient safety strategies (PSS) and evidence-based organization of care pathway (EBOP) recommendations and examine the extent to which implementation varies between countries and hospitals.Mixed-method multilevel cross-sectional design in seven countries as part of the European Union-funded project 'Deepening our Understanding of Quality improvement in Europe' (DUQuE).Seventy-four acute care hospitals with 292 departments managing acute myocardial infarction (AMI), hip fracture, stroke, and obstetric deliveries. Main outcome measure Five multi-item composite measures-one generic measure for PSS and four pathway-specific measures for EBOP.Potassium chloride had only been removed from general medication stocks in 9.4-30.5% of different pathways wards and patients were adequately identified with wristband in 43.0-59.7%. Although 86.3% of areas treating AMI patients had immediate access to a specialist physician, only 56.0% had arrangements for patients to receive thrombolysis within 30 min of arrival at the hospital. A substantial amount of the total variance observed was due to between-hospital differences in the same country for PSS (65.9%). In EBOP, between-country differences play also an important role (10.1% in AMI to 57.1% in hip fracture).There were substantial gaps between evidence and practice of PSS and EBOP in a sample of European hospitals and variations due to country differences are more important in EBOP than in PSS, but less important than within-country variations. Agencies supporting the implementation of PSS and EBOP should closely re-examine the effectiveness of their current strategies.