ReviewQuality & safety in health care2007
Making use of mortality data to improve quality and safety in general practice: a review of current approaches.
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13 citing papers in PubMed.
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- A systematic analysis of worldwide disasters, epidemics and pandemics associated mortality of 210 countries for 15 years (2001-2015).International journal of disaster risk reduction : IJDRR · 2022Article
- Achieving Equity in Asian American Healthcare: Critical Issues and Solutions.Journal of Asian health · 2021Article
- Reducing hospital mortality: Incremental change informed by structured mortality review is effective.Future healthcare journal · 2020Article
- Comparison of Safety Profiles between Non-operating Room Anesthesia and Operating Room Anesthesia: a Study of 199,764 Cases at a Korean Tertiary Hospital.Journal of Korean medical science · 2018Article
- Modelling factors in primary care quality improvement: a cross-sectional study of premature CHD mortality.BMJ open · 2013Article
- The 2003 Iraq War and avoidable death toll.PLoS medicine · 2013Article
- The injury mortality burden in Guinea.BMC public health · 2012Article
- Neonatal mortality, risk factors and causes: a prospective population-based cohort study in urban Pakistan.Bulletin of the World Health Organization · 2009Article
- Postoperative mortality after inpatient surgery: Incidence and risk factors.Therapeutics and clinical risk management · 2008Article
- Routine mortality monitoring for detecting mass murder in UK general practice: test of effectiveness using modelling.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2008Article
- Primary healthcare teams' views on using mortality data to review clinical policies.Quality & safety in health care · 2007Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo review studies of the use of mortality data in quality and safety improvement in general practice.
designNarrative review.
methodsSearch of Medline, Embase and CINAHL for articles reporting mortality monitoring or mortality reviews in general practice. The included articles were reported in English and of any study design, excluding case reports and comment pieces. Studies of palliative care and bereavement, and of primary care programmes in developing countries, were excluded.
results229 articles were identified in the searches, 65 were identified as potentially relevant and 53 were included in the review. The studies addressed the impact of primary care provision on mortality rates, methods of monitoring mortality, and the role of audit and death registers in quality and safety improvement. General practitioners were interested in using mortality data but reported difficulties in obtaining complete information. There were no experimental studies of the impact of the use of mortality data, and little evidence of long-term systematic initiatives to use mortality data in quality and safety improvement in general practice.
conclusionsMortality data are not used systematically in general practice although general practitioners appear interested in the potential of this information in improving quality and safety. Improved systems to provide complete data are needed and experimental studies required to determine the effectiveness of use of the data to improve general practice care.
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