Patient Power: A feasibility study on the impact of providing a bedside notepad to encourage patients to ask questions following surgery.

Objective: This study aimed to evaluate a behaviour change strategy to enhance the patient voice in the early post-operative setting.

Methods: The Patient Power notepad was evaluated in an uncontrolled, single-group, mixed-methods trial including a patient evaluation survey and staff phone interviews.

Results: Patients thought that the notepad was well-designed and prompted them to think of and ask questions.

Optimising acute non-critical inter-hospital transfers: A review of evidence, practice and patient perspectives.

Introduction: Patients who present to hospital with an acute non-critical illness or injury, which is considered outside the capability framework of that hospital to treat, will require inter-hospital transfer (IHT) to a hospital with a higher level of capability for that condition. Delays in IHT can negatively impact patient care and patient outcomes.

Objective: To review and synthesis academic evidence, practitioner insights and patient perspectives on ways to improve IHT from regional to metro hospitals.

The frequency and nature of barriers to escalation of care in two Australian teaching hospitals.

Background: Nurses and junior doctors are often the first clinicians to recognise signs of deterioration in patients. However, there can be barriers to having conversations about escalation of care.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to study the frequency and nature of barriers encountered during discussions related to escalation of care for deteriorating hospitalised patients.

How effective are interventions in optimizing workplace mental health and well-being? A scoping review of reviews and evidence map.

Objectives: Mental well-being is critical to quality of life. Workplace mental well-being is crucial to ensure employee health, satisfaction, and performance. Mental ill-health is a global challenge, costing workplaces $17 billion per year.

Barriers and facilitators to shared decision-making in hospitals from policy to practice: a systematic review.

Background: Involving patients in their healthcare using shared decision-making (SDM) is promoted through policy and research, yet its implementation in routine practice remains slow. Research into SDM has stemmed from primary and secondary care contexts, and research into the implementation of SDM in tertiary care settings has not been systematically reviewed. Furthermore, perspectives on SDM beyond those of patients and their treating clinicians may add insights into the implementation of SDM.

Simulation-based training for increasing health service board members' effectiveness: a cluster randomised controlled trial.

Objectives: There is a paucity of research on how to improve the functioning of health service boards, despite their importance in influencing patient care. We examined the impact of simulation-based training on health service board members' perceptions of their skills in communicating during board meetings and of board meeting processes.

Design: Prospective, cluster randomised controlled trial.

Closing the loop on test results to reduce communication failures: a rapid review of evidence, practice and patient perspectives.

Background: Communication failures involving test results contribute to issues of patient harm and sentinel events. This article aims to synthesise review evidence, practice insights and patient perspectives addressing problems encountered in the communication of diagnostic test results.

Methods: The rapid review identified ten systematic reviews and four narrative reviews.

Changing prescribing behaviours with educational outreach: an overview of evidence and practice.

Background: General practitioners (GPs), or family practitioners, are tasked with prescribing medications that can be harmful to the community if they are inappropriately prescribed or used (e.g. opioids).

Traumatic spinal cord injury in Victoria, 2007-2016.

Objective: To investigate trends in the incidence and causes of traumatic spinal cord injury (TSCI) in Victoria over a 10-year period.

Design, Setting, Participants: Retrospective cohort study: analysis of Victorian State Trauma Registry (VSTR) data for people who sustained TSCIs during 2007-2016.

Main Outcomes And Measures: Temporal trends in population-based incidence rates of TSCI (injury to the spinal cord with an Abbreviated Injury Scale [AIS] score of 4 or more).

Simulation-based training for increasing health service board members' effectiveness: protocol for a cluster-randomised controlled trial.

Introduction: Research indicates that health service boards can influence quality of care. However, government reviews have indicated that board members may not be as effective as possible in attaining this goal. Simulation-based training may help to increase board members' ability to effectively communicate and hold hospital staff to account during board meetings.

Experiences With Navigating and Managing Information in the Community Following Spinal Cord Injury.

People living with spinal cord injury (SCI) have reported difficulties managing information in the community, which can negatively impact their functional independence and ability to prevent secondary complications. This exploratory qualitative study aimed to describe the experiences of people living with SCI with navigating and managing information in the community from their perspective. Participants were recruited through the Australian Quadriplegic Association.

HOspitals and patients WoRking in Unity (): telephone peer support to improve older patients' quality of life after emergency department discharge in Melbourne, Australia-a multicentre prospective feasibility study.

Objectives: To ascertain the feasibility and acceptability of the programme, a novel volunteer-peer postdischarge support programme for older patients after discharge from the emergency department (ED).

Design: A multicentre prospective mixed-methods feasibility study.

Setting: Two tertiary hospital EDs in metropolitan Melbourne, Australia.

Caring for older patients in the emergency department: Health professionals' perspectives from Australia - The Safe Elderly Emergency Discharge project.

Objective: To explore health professionals' perspectives about caring for community-dwelling older patients in the ED.

Methods: This exploratory qualitative study was undertaken with emergency nursing, medical and allied health staff from the ED of a large metropolitan public hospital in Melbourne. Nine focus groups (n = 54) and seven interviews were conducted between 2013 and 2014.

Early psychological interventions for posttraumatic stress, depression and anxiety after traumatic injury: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

The psychological impacts of injury have significant long-term implications on injury recovery. This review examined the effectiveness of interventions delivered within three months of injury on reducing the severity of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), anxiety and depression symptoms. A systematic search of seven databases (PsycINFO, Medline, Web of Science, CINAHL, Embase, Scopus and Cochrane Library) identified 15,224 records.

Experiences of hospital readmission and receiving formal carer services following spinal cord injury: a qualitative study to identify needs.

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explore the needs of people living with spinal cord injury, receiving formal carer and hospital services.

Materials And Methods: This exploratory qualitative study was undertaken with people living with spinal cord injury in metropolitan or regional Victoria. Participants were recruited through the Australian Quadriplegic Association.

HOspitals and patients WoRking in Unity (HOW R U?): protocol for a prospective feasibility study of telephone peer support to improve older patients' quality of life after emergency department discharge.

Introduction: Older people presenting to an emergency department (ED) have a higher likelihood of social isolation, loneliness and depression; which are all associated with negative health outcomes and increased health service use, including higher rates of ED attendance. The HOW R U? study aims to ascertain the feasibility and acceptability of a postdischarge telephone support programme for older ED patients following discharge. The intervention, which aims to improve quality of life, will be delivered by hospital-based volunteers.