Start and end dates

September 2013 - September 2016

Team

  • Dr Sam Pannick (key contact)
  • Dr Susannah Long
  • Professor Thanos Athansiou
  • Iain Beveridge
  • Professor Nick Sevdalis

Project summary


Background

Improving the quality of care for patients on general medical wards is an international priority. Relatively little is known about these areas, which are hard to study because of their diverse patient populations, frequent transitions of care, and dispersion of the responsible health care team throughout the hospital. 

Aims

  • Identify the different approaches to improving care in general medical wards
  • Evaluate how changes in interdisciplinary care
  • Evaluate an interdisciplinary intervention to improve the quality of clinical microsystem learning in medical units (HEADS-UP)

Outputs

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Theme lead

Dr Sonal Arora