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‘Every patient, every day’: a daily ward round tool to improve patient safety and experience by Judith Johnston; John Stephenson; Anu Rajgopal; Neeraj Bhasin is a Health Professions article available to read on EtoBox.

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## Introduction Many essential interventions are required to ensure in-patients receive safe and effective care with a good experience. In addition, healthcare organisations are assessed on numerous performance indicators, including the aforementioned interventions, where underperformance can lead to lower publicly reported ratings, loss of income and reputational damage. Most importantly, underperformance can lead to compromised patient experience and outcomes. We created a prompt card as a service improvement tool to be used on the daily ward rounds at the bedside of every patient, entitled ‘every patient, every day’ to improve documentation, antibiotic prescribing, venous thromboembolism (VTE) prophylaxis, coding and patient communication. ## Method Preimplementation data around these interventions and patient experience factors were collected by shadowing ward rounds. The ‘every patient, every day’ tool was then implemented. The ward rounds were shadowed by the same individual to collect post-implementation data. Effect of implementation was assessed via Poisson regression models conducted on the documentation, antibiotics and VTE measures, and logistic regression models conduc

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Author

Judith Johnston; John Stephenson; Anu Rajgopal; Neeraj Bhasin

Published

2022

Language

EN

Field

Health Professions (Health Sciences)