Publications by authors named "S M van Schoten"
Background: The uptake of guidelines in care is inconsistent. This review focuses on guideline implementation strategies used by guideline organizations (governmental agencies, scientific/professional societies and other umbrella organizations), experienced implementation barriers and facilitators and impact of their implementation efforts.
Methods: We searched PUBMED, EMBASE and CINAHL and conducted snowballing.
Article Synopsis
- The study examined patient safety by comparing adverse events (AEs) in hospital patients with and without conditions relevant for palliative care, finding no significant differences in overall prevalence but noting variability in types of AEs.
- Out of nearly 3,000 patient records reviewed from hospitals in the Netherlands, both groups had similar rates of potentially preventable AEs and deaths, with medication-related issues prevalent in palliative care patients and surgery issues more common in others.
- The analysis highlighted that the majority of AEs were due to patient-related causes, suggesting a need for tailored prevention strategies, despite overall preventability rates being comparable across both groups.
Fatal Adverse Events in Femoral Neck Fracture Patients Undergoing Hemiarthroplasty or Total Hip Arthroplasty-A Retrospective Record Review Study in a Nationwide Sample of Deceased Patients.
J Patient Saf
August 2024
Objectives: Patient safety is a core component of quality of hospital care and measurable through adverse event (AE) rates. A high-risk group are femoral neck fracture patients. The Dutch clinical guideline states that the treatment of choice is cemented total hip arthroplasty (THA) or hemiarthroplasty (HA).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Quality of care at the end of life in hospitals is often perceived to be lower compared to the care that is provided to people who die in their own home. Documenting and measuring indicators of common end-of-life symptoms could help improve end-of-life care in hospitals. This study provided insight into quality indicators for the end-of-life care of patients who died in a Dutch hospital, and assessed differences between deceased patients who were admitted for palliative/terminal care versus patients admitted for other reasons.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: Improving patient safety by investigating sentinel events (SEs) is hampered by the focus on isolated events within hospitals and a narrow scope of traditional root cause analysis methods. We aimed to examine if performing cross-hospital aggregate analysis of SEs applying a novel generic analysis method (GAM) bearing a human factor perspective can enhance learning from SEs.
Methods: A retrospective cross-sectional review of SE reports from 28 Dutch general hospitals using the GAM to reanalyze events was performed.