Application of a novel disinvestment research design to the use of weekend allied health services on acute medical and surgical wards - randomised trial and economic evaluation protocol

Haines, Terry; Skinner, Elizabeth H; Mitchell, Debra; O’Brien, Lisa; Bowles, Kelly‐Ann; Markham, Donna; Plumb, Samantha; Chui, Timothy; May, Kerry; Haas, Romi; Lescai, David; Philip, Kathleen; McDermott, Fiona

doi:10.1186/1472-6963-14-s2-p53

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“…This prospective, observational study was performed for a period of 6 months in conjunction with a broader stepped‐wedge randomized controlled trial evaluating the effectiveness of acute weekend allied health services . Approval for the study was obtained from Monash Health (reference number: 13327B) and Melbourne Health's (reference number: 2013.283) respective Human Research Ethics Committees.…”

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“…Hospital 1 was a 520‐bed hospital providing acute and sub‐acute services, and hospital 2 was a 360‐bed acute hospital. Data were collected between 1 April and 30 September 2014 with the study period and wards determined by the broader stepped‐wedge randomized controlled trial . Wards included in hospital 1 were two general medical wards, an orthopaedic, surgical, neurosciences, plastics, sub‐acute and an acute medical assessment unit.…”

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“…The research assistants were oriented to the hospital wards by lead investigators of the larger trail (K. A. B. and D. M.) who hold a variety of clinical, management and academic roles. Research assistants were introduced to the nurse‐in‐charge and nurse unit managers for each of the study wards and discussed the project and procedures that ward staff follow when reporting adverse events.…”

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Do daily ward interviews improve measurement of hospital quality and safety indicators? A prospective observational study

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“…This study was performed in conjunction with a larger stepped-wedge randomised controlled trial examining the effectiveness of acute weekend allied health services [24] and was approved by Monash Health Human Ethics Committee (Reference Number 13327B). The study was conducted at a major 520 bed public hospital providing acute and sub-acute services in urban South-East Mel-bourne, Australia and occurred during the first two weeks in February 2014.…”

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Data Collection Methods in Health Services Research

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SummaryBackground: Hospital length of stay and discharge destination are important outcome measures in evaluating effectiveness and efficiency of health services. Although hospital administrative data are readily used as a data collection source in health services research, no research has assessed this data collection method against other commonly used methods. Objective: Determine if administrative data from electronic patient management programs are an effective data collection method for key hospital outcome measures when compared with alternative hospital data collection methods. Method: Prospective observational study comparing the completeness of data capture and level of agreement between three data collection methods; manual data collection from ward-based sources, administrative data from an electronic patient management program (i.PM), and inpatient medical record review (gold standard) for hospital length of stay and discharge destination. Results: Manual data collection from ward-based sources captured only 376 (69%) of the 542 inpatient episodes captured from the hospital administrative electronic patient management program. Administrative data from the electronic patient management program had the highest levels of agreement with inpatient medical record review for both length of stay (93.4%) and discharge destination (91%) data. Conclusion: This is the first paper to demonstrate differences between data collection methods for hospital length of stay and discharge destination. Administrative data from an electronic patient management program showed the highest level of completeness of capture and level of agreement with the gold standard of inpatient medical record review for both length of stay and discharge destination, and therefore may be an acceptable data collection method for these measures.

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