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| C A VincentSummaryAffiliation: Imperial College Country: UK Publications
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Communication patterns in a UK emergency departmentMaria Woloshynowych
Clinical Safety Research Unit, Department of Bio Surgery and Surgical Technology, Imperial College, London, UK
Ann Emerg Med 50:407-13. 2007..The nurse in charge of the ED plays a crucial role in maintaining communication flow. The aims of this study are to identify the features of the communication load on the nurse in charge of the ED...
A longitudinal, multi-level comparative study of quality and safety in European hospitals: the QUASER study protocolGlenn B Robert
National Nursing Research Unit, King s College London, 57 Waterloo Road, London, SE1 8WA, UK
BMC Health Serv Res 11:285. 2011....- Missing clinical information in NHS hospital outpatient clinics: prevalence, causes and effects on patient careSusan J Burnett
Centre for Patient Safety and Service Quality, Imperial College London, Department of Surgery, Division of Surgery and Cancer, Faculty of Medicine, St Mary s Campus, Norfolk Place, London, UK
BMC Health Serv Res 11:114. 2011..This is the first study to present such figures for the UK and the first to look at how clinicians respond, including the associated impact on patient care... - Patient safety alerts: a balance between evidence and actionC A Vincent
Imperial College London, 10th Floor, QEQM Building, St Mary's Hospital, Praed Street, London W21 NY, UK
Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed 91:F314-5. 2006 - [Patients and doctors experiences of iatrogenic injury]Charles Vincent
Clinical Safety Research Unit, Imperial College, London
Z Arztl Fortbild Qualitatssich 98:593-9. 2004.... - Learning from litigation. The role of claims analysis in patient safetyCharles Vincent
Smith and Nephew Foundation, Department of Surgical Oncology and Technology, Clinical Safety Research Unit, Imperial College London, London, UK
J Eval Clin Pract 12:665-74. 2006.... - Systems approaches to surgical quality and safety: from concept to measurementCharles Vincent
Clinical Safety Research Unit, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of London, London, United Kingdom
Ann Surg 239:475-82. 2004..Methods of assessing such factors are outlined, and ethical issues and other potential concerns are discussed... 
Social scientists and patient safety: critics or contributors?Charles Vincent
Imperial Centre for Patient Safety and Service Quality, Department of Biosurgery and Technology, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Soc Sci Med 69:1777-9. 2009..However, if social scientists are to have a real impact they need to do more than simply offer critiques of patient safety and move to active engagement with clinicians and patient safety researchers...- Multidisciplinary centres for safety and quality improvement: learning from climate change scienceCharles Vincent
Department Biosurgery and Surgical Technology, Imperial College London, Imperial Centre for Patient Safety and Service Quality, London, UK
BMJ Qual Saf 20:i73-8. 2011..In this paper, we address some of the pragmatic challenges of creating such centres and consider how the right groups and networks of researchers and practitioners might be assembled... - Incident reporting in one UK accident and emergency departmentCatherine M Tighe
Clinical Safety Research Unit, Department of Biosurgery and Surgical Technology, Imperial College, St. Mary's Campus, Praed Street, London W2 1NY, United Kingdom
Accid Emerg Nurs 14:27-37. 2006..This research may have implications for the incident reporting process in other specialities as well as in other hospitals... - Defining the technical skills of teamwork in surgeryA N Healey
Clinical Safety Research Unit, Imperial College, University of London, St Mary s Hospital, London W2 1NY, UK
Qual Saf Health Care 15:231-4. 2006..However, the measures employed for enhancing teamwork in training and practice will need to vary in their object of analysis, level of technical specificity, and system scope... - An evaluation of information transfer through the continuum of surgical care: a feasibility studyKamal Nagpal
Department of Biosurgery and Surgical Technology, Centre for Patient Safety and Surgical Quality, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
Ann Surg 252:402-7. 2010..To evaluate information transfer and communication (ITC) across the surgical care pathway with the use of Information Transfer and Communication Assessment Tool for Surgery (ITCAS)... - Measuring intra-operative interference from distraction and interruption observed in the operating theatreA N Healey
Department of Biosurgery and Technology, Clinical Safety Research, Imperial College, University of London, 10th Floor QEQM, St Mary s Hospital, Praed Street, Paddington, London, W2 1NY, UK
Ergonomics 49:589-604. 2006..The findings highlight the need to further develop measures of interference, to assess its variation, intensity and its effect on surgical team performance... - How to improve patient safety in surgeryCharles Vincent
Clinical Safety Research Unit, Imperial College, University of London
J Health Serv Res Policy 15:40-3. 2010.... - Judgment analysis: a method for quantitative evaluation of trainee surgeons' judgments of surgical riskRos Jacklin
Clinical Safety Research Unit, Department of Bio Surgery and Surgical Technology, Imperial College London, 10th Floor, QEQM, St Mary s Hospital, South Wharf Rd, London, W2 1NY, UK
Am J Surg 195:183-8. 2008..Surgical judgment and decision making require valid methods of assessment. The aim of this study was to evaluate the use of judgment analysis as a technique for quantitative evaluation of surgeons' risk estimates... - How willing are patients to question healthcare staff on issues related to the quality and safety of their healthcare? An exploratory studyR E Davis
Clinical Safety Research Unit, Department of Bio Surgery and Surgical Technology, St Mary s Hospital, South Wharf Road, London W2 1NY, UK
Qual Saf Health Care 17:90-6. 2008..One in 10 patients admitted to hospital will suffer an adverse event as a result of their medical treatment. A reduction in adverse events could happen if patients could be engaged successfully in monitoring their care... - Variations in the application of various perfusion technologies in Great Britain and Ireland--a national surveyOliver J Warren
Department of Biosurgery and Surgical Technology, Imperial College London, London, UK
Artif Organs 34:200-5. 2010..While some variation between centers is to be expected, as innovative technologies are adopted at varying rates, surveys such as this are useful for alerting clinicians to gaps between evidence-based knowledge and clinical practice... - A decision-making learning and assessment tool in laparoscopic cholecystectomySudip K Sarker
University Department of Surgery, Royal Free Hospital, London, UK
Surg Endosc 23:197-203. 2009..It aims to accumulate several years of varied surgical experience, so the trainee can start to learn the complexities of surgical decision making in various types of cases. In this study we aim to validate the tool... - Mapping surgical practice decision making: an interview study to evaluate decisions in surgical careRos Jacklin
Imperial College London, St Mary s Hospital, London, United Kingdom
Am J Surg 195:689-96. 2008..Training surgeons in vital decision-making skills remains unstructured. We aimed to map a process of care from the perspective of surgical decision making and test whether it could be deconstructed into an accessible format for trainees... - Annoyances, disruptions, and interruptions in surgery: the Disruptions in Surgery Index (DiSI)Nick Sevdalis
Clinical Safety Research Unit, Department of Bio Surgery and Surgical Technology, Imperial College, 10th Floor, QEQM, St Mary s Hospital, South Wharf Road, London, W2 1NY, UK
World J Surg 32:1643-50. 2008..Recent studies have investigated disruptions to surgical process via observation. We developed the Disruptions in Surgery Index (DiSI) to assess operating room professionals' self-perceptions of disruptions that affect surgical processes... - Perceptions of the impact of a large-scale collaborative improvement programme: experience in the UK Safer Patients InitiativeJonathan Benn
Imperial College London, Norfolk Place, London, UK
J Eval Clin Pract 15:524-40. 2009..We report a multi-method preliminary study based upon phase 1 of SPI to understand participant's perceptions of the local impact of the programme and to form the basis of future research in this area... - Predictors of the perceived impact of a patient safety collaborative: an exploratory studyAnna Pinto
Division of Surgery, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Clinical Safety Research Unit, Imperial College London, St Mary s Campus, Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG, UK
Int J Qual Health Care 23:173-81. 2011..The aim of this study was to evaluate the influence of various factors on the perceived impact of a patient safety improvement collaborative in the UK, the Safer Patients Initiative (SPI)... - Studying large-scale programmes to improve patient safety in whole care systems: challenges for researchJonathan Benn
Department of Biosurgery and Surgical Technology, Imperial College London, St Mary s Campus, QEQM Building Praed Street, London W2 1NY, UK
Soc Sci Med 69:1767-76. 2009..This requires a sociotechnical approach, rather than focusing upon one microsystem, disciplinary perspective or single level of the system... - Improving reliability of clinical care practices for ventilated patients in the context of a patient safety improvement initiativeAnna Pinto
Division of Surgery, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, London, UK
J Eval Clin Pract 17:180-7. 2011.... - Information transfer and communication in surgery: a systematic reviewKamal Nagpal
Department of Biosurgery and Surgical Technology, Centre for Patient Safety and Service Quality, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
Ann Surg 252:225-39. 2010..We conducted a systematic review of published literature to gain a better understanding of interprofessional information transfer and communication (ITC) in hospital setting in the field of surgical and anesthetic care... - A systematic quantitative assessment of risks associated with poor communication in surgical careKamal Nagpal
Clinical Safety Research Unit, Department of Biosurgery and Surgical Technology, Imperial College London, 10th Floor, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Building, St Mary s Hospital, South Wharf Road, London W2 1NY, United Kingdom
Arch Surg 145:582-8. 2010..Health care failure mode and effect analysis identifies critical processes prone to information transfer and communication failures and suggests interventions to improve these failures... - Medical engagement in organisation-wide safety and quality-improvement programmes: experience in the UK Safer Patients InitiativeAnam Parand
Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, Rm 503, 5th Floor Wright Fleming Building, St Mary s Campus, Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG, UK
Qual Saf Health Care 19:e44. 2010..To identify factors affecting doctors' engagement with the Safer Patients Initiative (SPI)... - Organisational readiness: exploring the preconditions for success in organisation-wide patient safety improvement programmesSusan Burnett
Centre for Patient Safety and Service Quality, Department of Surgery, Division of Surgery and Cancer, Faculty of Medicine, Room 508, Medical School Building, St Mary s Campus, Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG, UK
Qual Saf Health Care 19:313-7. 2010.... - Understanding and responding to adverse eventsCharles Vincent
Department of Surgical Oncology and Technology, Imperial College School of Science, Technology, and Medicine, St. Mary's Hospital, London
N Engl J Med 348:1051-6. 2003 - Development of assessing generic and specific technical skills in laparoscopic surgerySudip K Sarker
Clinical Safety Research Unit, Department of Surgical Oncology and Technology, South Wharf Rd, 10th Floor QEQM Bldg, St Mary s Hospital, London, UK
Am J Surg 191:238-44. 2006..Assessing live laparoscopic surgery using structured methodology is still in its infancy; however, it removes bias and subjectivity. We critique a new assessment tool for technical skills in laparoscopic surgery... - Assessing the teaching of technical skillsSudip K Sarker
Clinical Safety Research Units, Department of Surgical Oncology and Technology, St Mary s Hospital, Imperial College London, 89 Cornwall Gardens, South Kensington, London SW7 4AX, United Kingdom
Am J Surg 189:416-8. 2005..There is a lack of structured instruments to assess how technical skills are taught. We aimed to develop a practical assessment tool that is easy to use and will assess the teaching of technical skills... - Causes of prescribing errors in hospital inpatients: a prospective studyBryony Dean
Centre for Practice and Policy, School of Pharmacy, University of London, London, UK
Lancet 359:1373-8. 2002..They have not, however, been applied to prescribing errors, which are a great cause of patient harm. Our aim was to use this approach to investigate the causes of such errors... - Surgical crisis management skills training and assessment: a simulation[corrected]-based approach to enhancing operating room performanceKrishna Moorthy
Department of Surgical Oncology and Technology, Imperial College, London, UK
Ann Surg 244:139-47. 2006..Our aim was to develop a surgical crisis simulation and evaluate its feasibility, realism, and validity of the measures used to assess performance... - The human face of simulation: patient-focused simulation trainingRoger Kneebone
Surgical Education, Department of Biosurgery and Surgical Technology, Imperial College London
Acad Med 81:919-24. 2006..Finally, the case is made for curriculum redesign to ensure that simulator-based technical skills training and assessment take place within an authentic context that reflects the wider elements of clinical practice... - Technical and technological skills assessment in laparoscopic surgerySudip K Sarker
Clinical Safety Research Unit, St Mary s Hospital, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, United Kingdom
JSLS 10:284-92. 2006..Assessing technical skills in a structured manner is still not widely used. Laparoscopic surgery also requires the surgeon to be competent in technological aspects of the operation... - Constructing hierarchical task analysis in surgerySudip K Sarker
Academic Surgery Unit, Royal Free Hospital, London, United Kingdom
Surg Endosc 22:107-11. 2008..Specific technical skills are required to complete a task or subtask, which can be depicted by hierarchical task analysis (HTA). In this study we aim to demonstrate a reliable and valid method to construct a surgical HTA... - Hospital staff should use more than one method to detect adverse events and potential adverse events: incident reporting, pharmacist surveillance and local real-time record review may all have a placeSisse Olsen
Clinical Safety Research Unit, Department of Bio surgery and Technology, Imperial College, St Mary s Hospital, London, UK
Qual Saf Health Care 16:40-4. 2007.... - Decision making in laparoscopic surgery: a prospective, independent and blinded analysisSudip K Sarker
Academic Surgery, Royal Free Hospital, London, UK
Int J Surg 6:98-105. 2008..In our present study we aim to assess operative decision making by trainee and expert surgeons by using hierarchical task analysis (HTA) as a method to map out decision making in surgery... - The problem of engaging hospital doctors in promoting safety and quality in clinical careGraham Neale
Clinical Safety Research Unit, Department of Bio Surgery Imperial College London, St Mary s Hospital, London W2 INY UK
J R Soc Promot Health 127:87-94. 2007..In this article we explore the historical and cultural background of these issues with respect to hospital medicine and suggest means of tackling the challenges ahead... - Multidisciplinary crisis simulations: the way forward for training surgical teamsShabnam Undre
Department of Bio Surgery and Surgical Technology, Imperial College and St, Mary s Hospital, London, United Kingdom
World J Surg 31:1843-53. 2007..Recently safety skills training has been applied in the practice of medicine. In this study, we developed and piloted a module using multidisciplinary crisis scenarios in a simulated operating theatre to train entire surgical teams... - Patient involvement in patient safety: How willing are patients to participate?R E Davis
Clinical Safety Research Unit, Department of Surgery and Cancer, 10 floor, QEQM, St Mary s Hospital, South Wharf Road, London W2 1NY, UK
BMJ Qual Saf 20:108-14. 2011..Despite growing recognition internationally that patients can help to promote their own safety, little evidence exists on how willing patients are to take on an active role... - Developing observational measures of performance in surgical teamsA N Healey
Imperial College London, Department of Surgical Oncology and Technology, 10th Floor QEQM, St Mary s Hospital, Praed Street, Paddington, London W2 1NY, UK
Qual Saf Health Care 13:i33-40. 2004.... - Postoperative handover: problems, pitfalls, and prevention of errorKamal Nagpal
Department of Biosurgery and Surgical Technology, Centre for Patient Safety and Surgical Quality, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
Ann Surg 252:171-6. 2010..To identify the information transfer and communication problems in postoperative handover and to develop and validate a novel protocol for standardizing this communication... - Measuring and enhancing elective service performance in NHS operating theatres: an overviewErik Mayer
Department of Biosurgery and Surgical Technology, Imperial College London 10th Floor, QEQM Building, St Mary's Hospital Campus, Praed Street, London, W2 1NY, UK
J R Soc Med 101:273-7. 2008 - Factors influencing stigma: a comparison of Greek-Cypriot and English attitudes towards mental illness in north LondonChris Papadopoulos
St Ann s Hospital, St Ann s Road, Research and Development Department, London, N15 3TH, UK
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 37:430-4. 2002..Previous research points to particularly strong stigmatising attitudes in Greek and Greek Cypriots (Triandis 1989). It is unclear whether these attitudes continue to be held by UK-born Greek Cypriots... - The incidence of prescribing errors in hospital inpatients: an overview of the research methodsBryony Dean Franklin
Academic Pharmacy Unit, Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust and School of Pharmacy, University of London, London, UK
Drug Saf 28:891-900. 2005..Therefore, the most appropriate method depends on the study's aims. However, using a combination of methods is likely to be the most useful approach if comprehensive data are required... - Incident reporting and patient safetyCharles Vincent
BMJ 334:51. 2007 - Assessing the likelihood of an important clinical outcome: new insights from a comparison of clinical and actuarial judgmentTim Rakow
Department of Psychology, University of Essex, Colchester, UK
Med Decis Making 25:262-82. 2005..To assess and rank the performance of different methods of predicting the probability of death following a specified surgical procedure... - Patient reports of preventable problems and harms in primary health careAnton J Kuzel
Department of Family Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23298, USA
Ann Fam Med 2:333-40. 2004..The principal aims of this study were to develop patient-focused typologies of medical errors and harms in primary care settings and to discern which medical errors and harms seem to be the most important... - Making the case for a qualitative study of medical errors in primary careAnton J Kuzel
Department of Family Practice, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA
Qual Health Res 13:743-80. 2003..The authors make explicit the anticipated concerns of reviewers more accustomed to quantitative research proposals and the arguments and strategies employed to address them...