Category Archives: Improvement skills and tools

Rapid Update 1 – February 2021 – RCT finds a digital intervention improves systolic blood pressure in poorly controlled hypertension

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Rapid Update 3 – January 2019 Antibiotic prescribing: UK study reports that high volume prescribing GP practices issue more antibiotic prescriptions

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Rapid Update 3- June 2018: Polypharmacy: Potentially inappropriate prescribing in older people linked to repeated hospital readmission and increased mortality

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Rapid Update 2- March 2018: Communication and shared decision-making: UK questionnaire-based study finds that many people do not fully understand common medical terms

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Rapid Update 3- July 2017: Inappropriate prescribing in renal impairment: its prevalence, consequences and the impact of interventions to improve prescribing

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Safer Prescribing: A Trial of Education, Informatics, and Financial Incentives (Apr-16)

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Antibiotic Prescribing: Provision of social norm feedback to high prescribers of antibiotics in general practice: a pragmatic national randomised controlled trial (Mar-16)

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NPC Archive Item: Patient Safety First – The How-to Guide for Measurement for Improvement

NOTE – This is an archive post from the NPC and has not been updated since first publication. Therefore, some hyperlinks may no longer be working. Introduction Published in March 2009 by Patient Safety First, The How-to Guide for Measurement for Improvement stresses the importance of demonstrating whether changes lead to genuine improvement with particular […]