Australian hospitals
A point prevalence cross-sectional study of healthcare-associated urinary tract infections in six Australian hospitals
... study, we conducted a preliminary study in six Australian hospitals. The aims and objectives of this study were to (1) establish the point prevalence of HAUTIs and CAUTIs, (2) describe level and ...
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The economic rationale for infection control in Australian hospitals
... uncertainty in the parameters was propagated forward to the conclusions. Repeating data collection in each state and territory might not be justified as the findings may not change much. A further caveat is that we ...
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Examining Innovation Translation of RFID Technology in Australian Hospitals through a Lens Informed by Actor-Network Theory
... Australian hospitals. At the beginning, I made a list of Australian hospitals considering RFID ...these hospitals had made, the list was narrowed to those hospitals that were ...
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Variation in hospital cleaning practice and process in Australian hospitals: a structured mapping exercise
... Hospital cleaning serves to reduce the risk of infection or pathogen transmission between patients and hospital staff. Visual appearance of cleanliness also offers a more aesthetically pleasing environment for staff, ...
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What do patients really want? An in depth examination of patient experience in four Australian hospitals
... When data were analysed, a number of the concepts and experiences explored were shared between survey items. For example, communication with staff was a key concept in not only discharge planning, but also liaising with ...
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Health service accreditation stimulating change in clinical care and human resource management processes: a study of 311 Australian hospitals
... The findings are consistent with research that has highlighted the potential for accreditation to facilitate continual and systematic quality improvement changes to sub- systems within hospitals [26, 27]. The ...
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Nursing churn and turnover in Australian hospitals: nurses perceptions and suggestions for supportive strategies
... Participants were part of a broader study, which exam- ined the relationship between nurse turnover and pa- tient, organizational and staff outcomes. Patient, nurse and costing data were collected on 62 medical and ...
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Implementation and evaluation of a multisite drug usage evaluation program across Australian hospitals a quality improvement initiative
... South Australian Therapeutic Advisory Group/Department of Health: Shwu Fen Loh, Anne Reeves; Drug and Therapeutic Information Service, South Australia: Debra Rowett; APOP project teams in Queensland, New South ...
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Comparison of Clostridium difficile Ribotypes Circulating in Australian Hospitals and Communities
... care hospitals and the community in two Australian states, while the second study enrolled asymptomatic TCD-colonized patients from the same tertiary care ...from hospitals, an isolate with a ...
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Implementation of evidence-based weekend service recommendations for allied health managers: a cluster randomised controlled trial protocol
... The sample size estimate was calculated based on the units of assessment of the primary outcome ‘alignment of weekend allied health service provision with policy recommendations at 12-month follow-up’. The most ...
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The IMPROVE GAP Trial aiming to improve evidence based management of community acquired pneumonia: study protocol for a stepped wedge randomised controlled trial
... two Australian hospitals in a single health service will be randomised using concealed allocation to: (i) usual medical, nursing and allied health care delivered according to existing organisational ...
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Short-notice (48 hours) ACCREDITATION trial in Australia: stakeholder perception of assessment thoroughness, resource requirements and workforce engagement
... 2018, Australian hospitals were assessed on clinical governance (CG), partnering with consumers, healthcare-asso- ciated infections, medication safety, patient identification and procedure matching, clin- ...
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Inclusion of a care bundle for fever, hyperglycaemia and swallow management in a National Audit for acute stroke: evidence of upscale and spread
... Similar to other areas of healthcare, the need to reduce the evidence-practice gap remains a challenge in stroke management. Within Australian hospitals, there is a marked variation in the quality of stroke ...
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Doctrinal and strategic problems of the Communist Party of Australia, 1945-1962
... The Communist Party was really involved in two situations, each with its own strategic difficulties. On the one hand, as we have seen, it was preparing for a period of clandestine activity, with all the difficulties in ...
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Privatisation, structural adjustment and Australian higher education policy
... of Australian manufacturers has resulted in high levels of protection and a declining trade performance relative to other countries (Ferris, cl al, ...of Australian exports on primary ...
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Literature Review of Emergency Department Staffing Redesign Framework
... breaks hospitals down into five categories (Major Referral Emergency Department, Urban District Emergency Department, Major Regional/Rural Base Emergency Department, Rural Emergency Service, and Primary ...
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Mandatory continuing professional development requirements: what does this mean for Australian nurses
... Human resources are seen as the most important contribution to health care [8]. As knowledge changes and new tools, technologies and procedures are deve- loped, on-going education and training for health care ...
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Professional isolation & independence of bush nurses in Tasmania 1910 1957 'We were very much individuals on our own'
... The hospital itself was also the site of changing focus and role definition from a charitable to more socially inclusive and curative role. Public health was coming to the fore with its focus on social engineering based ...
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Benchmarking nurse outcomes in Australian Magnet® hospitals: cross-sectional survey
... the Australian Magnet® hospitals studied here most nurses expressed satisfaction with their current employment and did not indicate retention was ...of Australian working ...2000 Australian ...
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Understanding corporate governance of healthcare quality: a comparative case study of eight Australian public hospitals
... This paper presents a comprehensive examination of the work of governing healthcare quality in key areas. Data from documents, interviews and observations has been reviewed from eight public hospitals in Australia ...
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