How well do NHS trusts react to patient safety alerts?
The study, first published in 2007, used several methods to study the nature of patient safety alerts, find out how trusts received and implemented them, assessed their impact and recommended improvements. Methods included surveys and interviews of staff at different levels from 41 NHS organizations and an in-depth study of 11 alerts.
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NHS Consulting, York Health Economics Consortium, University of York, York.
D003625:Data Collection; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008330:Management Audit; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D017751:Safety Management / Q000458:organization & administration*; D013222:State Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration*