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ArticlePalliative medicine2019

Quality improvement priorities for safer out-of-hours palliative care: Lessons from a mixed-methods analysis of a national incident-reporting database.

Huw Williams, Sir Liam Donaldson, Simon Noble, Peter Hibbert, Rhiannon Watson, Joyce Kenkre, Adrian Edwards, Andrew Carson-Stevens

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Article in Palliative medicine, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

26 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  4. Revealing the hidden harms in end-of-life care: a mixed-methods characterisation of reported safety incidents involving injectable symptom control medication.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2026
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  5. Learning from end-of-life injectable medication patient safety incidents in the community: a mixed-methods analysis.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2026
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  20. GPs' decisions about prescribing end-of-life anticipatory medications: a qualitative study.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Huw Williams1 Division of Population Medicine, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-2818-7079
Sir Liam Donaldson2 London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
Simon Noble3 Marie Curie Research Centre, Division of Population Medicine, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK.
Peter Hibbert4 Centre for Healthcare Resilience and Implementation Science, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, North Ryde, NSW, Australia.
Rhiannon Watson1 Division of Population Medicine, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK.
Joyce Kenkre5 University of South Wales, Pontypridd, UK.
Adrian Edwards1 Division of Population Medicine, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK.
Andrew Carson-Stevens1 Division of Population Medicine, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK.

Funding

Marie Curie MC 2016-06Marie Curie MCCC-FCO-11-CMarie Curie MCCC-FCO-17-CA
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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After-Hours CareDatabases, FactualHospice and Palliative Care NursingHumansMedical ErrorsPalliative CarePatient SafetyPrimary Health CareQuality ImprovementRisk ManagementUnited KingdomPalliative carepatient safetyprimary carequality improvement

Identifiers

PMID30537893
PMCPMC6376594

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