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Chantal BackmanUniversity of Ottawa · School of Nursing
Chantal Backman
Doctor of Philosophy
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Although patient centredness is part of providing high-quality health care, little is known about the effectiveness of care transition interventions that involve patients and their families on readmissions to the hospital or emergency visits post-discharge. This systematic review (SR) aimed to examine the evidence on patient- and family-centred (PF...
Background
Individuals 65 years or older are presumably more susceptible to becoming frail, which increases their risk of multiple adverse health outcomes. Reversing frailty has received recent attention; however, little is understood about what it means and how to achieve it. Thus, the purpose of this scoping review is to synthesize the evidence r...
Introduction
Older adults with hip fracture often require extensive post-surgery care across multiple sectors, making follow-up care even more important to ensure an ideal recovery. With the increased adoption of technology, patient-clinician digital health interventions can potentially improve post-surgery outcomes of hip fracture patients by help...
Background:
Current national guidelines on caring for hip fractures recommend early mobilization. However, this recommendation does not account for time spent immobilized waiting for surgery. We sought to determine timing of mobilization following hip fracture, beginning at hospital admission, and evaluate its association with medical complication...
Background
There is growing evidence that context mediates the effects of implementation interventions intended to increase healthcare professionals’ use of research evidence in clinical practice. However, conceptual clarity about what comprises context is elusive. The purpose of this study was to advance conceptual clarity on context by developing...
Background
To date, little attention has focused on what the determinants are and how evidence-based practices (EBPs) are sustained in tertiary settings (i.e., acute care hospitals). Current literature reveals several frameworks designed for implementation of EBPs (0–2 years), yet fewer exist for the sustainment of EBPs (>2 years) in clinical pract...
Background:
Older adults living with frailty represent the largest population of hospitalized patients in Canada, but they do not always receive the quality of care needed. Nurses are well-positioned to screen for frailty, but current frailty screening practices are poorly understood.
Methods:
A cross-sectional survey study was conducted over a...
https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1h41TMZDXM2qm Introduction:
Seniors are often accompanied by a family member to the emergency department. Families advocate for their needs and contribute to the continuity of care. However, they often feel excluded from care. To improve the quality and safety of care for seniors, it is necessary to consider the expe...
Patient experience, an essential indicator of quality patient care, is of increasing importance to hospitals that want to improve and maintain strong patient experience metrics to remain competitive in the business of healthcare. The aim of this study was to clarify the concept of the patient experience by identifying its existing definitions, meth...
Background:
With the increased adoption of technology, the use of digital health interventions in health care settings has increased. Patient-clinician digital health interventions have the potential to improve patient care, especially during important transitions between hospital and home. Digital health interventions can provide support to patie...
Introduction
Hip fracture patients receive varying levels of support posthip fracture surgery and often experience significant disability and increased risk of mortality. Best practice guidelines recommend that all hip fracture patients receive active rehabilitation following their acute care stay, with rehabilitation beginning no later than 6 days...
Background: Individuals 65 years or older are presumably more susceptible to becoming frail, which increases their risk of multiple adverse health outcomes. Reversing frailty has received recent attention; however, little is understood about what it means and how to achieve it.
Thus, the purpose of this scoping review is to summarize and synthesize...
Background: Intertrochanteric hip fractures are treated by fixation with either an intramedullary (IM) Nail or Dynamic Hip Screw (DHS). It is unknown whether one surgery type has better post-operative rehabilitative outcomes for the hip fracture population. This systematic review aims to compare post-operative rehabilitation outcomes of intertrocha...
Introduction
Patient–clinician digital health interventions can potentially improve the care of patients with hip fracture transitioning from hospital to rehabilitation to home. Assisting older patients with a hip fracture and their caregivers in managing their postsurgery care is crucial for ensuring the best rehabilitation outcomes. With the incr...
Purpose
The purpose of this study was to describe the barriers and enablers to the use of web-based applications designed to help manage the personalized needs of older adults and their caregivers post-hip fracture surgery while transitioning from hospital to geriatric rehabilitation to home.
Methods
This was a descriptive qualitative study consis...
Introduction : Les aînés sont souvent accompagnés d’un membre de leur famille à l’urgence et considèrent leur présence comme étant importante. Les familles plaident pour leurs besoins et contribuent à la continuité des soins. Toutefois, elles se sentent souvent exclues des soins. Afin d’améliorer la qualité et la sécurité des soins offerts aux aîné...
Little is known about how rooming house residents perceive how housing influences their health, despite higher morbidity and premature death compared to other Canadians. The social exclusion framework of the Social Knowledge Exchange Network (SEKN) conceptualized by Popay et al. (2008) was used to investigate how rooming houses are linked to health...
Background
To improve patient outcomes many healthcare organizations have undertaken a number of steps to enhance the quality of care, including the use of evidence-based practices (EBPs) such as clinical practice guidelines. However, there is little empirical understanding of the longer-term use of guideline-based practices and how to ensure their...
BACKGROUND
With the increased adoption of technology, the use of digital health interventions in health care settings has increased. Patient-clinician digital health interventions have the potential to improve patient care, especially during important transitions between hospital and home. Digital health interventions can provide support to patient...
Background
Frailty is a robust predictor of poor outcomes among patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease yet is not measured in routine practice. We determined barriers and facilitators to measuring frailty in a hospital setting, designed and implemented a frailty-focused education intervention, and measured accuracy of frailty screening...
Background
Hip fractures in older adults are significant contributors to severe functional decline and disability as well as hospitalization and increased health care costs. Research shows that timely referral to geriatric rehabilitation leads to better patient outcomes. Currently, a wide variability in the timing, the frequency, and the choice of...
Background
Geriatric hip fracture patients often experience gaps in care including variability in the timing and the choice of an appropriate setting for rehabilitation following hip fracture surgery. Many guidelines recommend standardized processes, including timely access of no later than day 6 to rehabilitation services. A pathway for early iden...
Objective:
to assess the impact of using a surgical checklist and its completion on complications such as surgical site infection (SSI), reoperation, readmission, and mortality in patients subjected to urgent colorectal procedures, as well as the reasons for non adherence to this instrument in this scenario, in a university hospital in Ottawa, Can...
Aim
To evaluate an intervention to reduce unnecessary urinary catheter use and prevent catheter‐associated urinary‐tract infections (CAUTI) in hospitalized patients across an academic health science centre.
Methods
We conducted a one‐group, pretest, posttest study with a theory‐based process evaluation. Phase 1 consisted of a pre/postintervention...
Background
Hospitalized children continue to experience procedural pain due to inconsistent implementation of readily available, evidence-based pain interventions.
Aims
To explore the prevalence of painful blood-testing procedures, pain management interventions, child-caregiver perceptions of effectiveness of, and satisfaction with, pain intervent...
Introduction and purpose
Residents in long-term care exhibit diminishing senses (hearing, sight, taste, smell or touch). The purpose of this study was to examine the available literature on the impact of sensory interventions on the quality of life of residents living in long-term care settings.
Methods
We conducted a mixed-methods scoping review...
Aim
The aim was to critically analyse the body of evidence regarding the effectiveness of PFCC transition interventions on the quality of care and the experience of patients.
Design
We conducted a systematic review using the Cochrane Handbook's guidelines and adhered to a standardized reporting format: Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Revi...
Background:
This aim of this study was to explore the role of regulation on the quality of care of older people living with depression in LTC, which in this paper is a domestic environment providing 24-h care for people with complex health needs and increased vulnerability.
Methods:
We conducted a systematic scoping review. A peer reviewed searc...
Objective: To evaluate the impact of a geriatric day hospital program on older adults’ functional independence and on caregiver stress. Methods: We used a single group pre- and posttest design. The data were collected through chart reviews and follow-up phone calls. Outcomes included fear of falling, balance, functional exercise capacity (walking d...
Aims and Objectives
To explore mentorship pairing practices for new graduate nurses in a tertiary care hospital.
Background
Many organizations have implemented mentorship transition programs to decrease new nursing graduate turnover in the first two years of practice. Little is known about mentorship pairing processes.
Design
An interpretive desc...
Background: Inappropriate use of urinary catheters can increase the risk of catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI) leading to increased morbidity and increased costs. The overall purpose of this study was to evaluate an intervention to reduce unnecessary urinary catheter use and prevent CAUTI in hospitalized patients across a large ac...
Purpose
To compare the mortality, reoperation, and readmission rates before and after the implementation of a surgical checklist in Brazil and Canada.
Design
An epidemiological, retrospective study was conducted.
Methods
Preimplementation and postimplementation data were collected via patient chart reviews to determine mortality, reoperation, and...
BACKGROUND
For older adults returning home from a hospital stay in geriatric rehabilitation, remembering the plethora of medical advice and medical instructions provided can be overwhelming for them and for their caregivers.
OBJECTIVE
The purpose of this project was to develop and test the feasibility of a novel web-based application called MyPath...
Background:
When older adults return home from geriatric rehabilitation in a hospital, remembering the plethora of medical advice and medical instructions provided can be overwhelming for them and for their caregivers.
Objective:
The overall objective was to develop and test the feasibility of a novel web-based application called MyPath to Home...
Background:
There is growing recognition among healthcare professionals that the sustainability of evidence-based practices (EBPs) within different settings is variable and suboptimal. Understanding why a particular EBP might be sustained in one setting and not another remains unclear. Recent reviews illustrate the need to identify and analyze exi...
Background
We have designed a prospective adverse event (AE) surveillance method. We performed this study to evaluate this method’s performance in several hospitals simultaneously.
Objectives
To compare AE rates obtained by prospective AE surveillance in different hospitals and to evaluate measurement factors explaining observed variation.
Method...
Introduction
As adults age, their senses tend to decline and a large portion of those most affected by sensory decline reside in long-term care. At present, the creation of a sense-sensitive environment in long-term care is a difficult task as there is minimal evidence or tools available to guide this process. The 5Senses screening tool was develop...
Background:
The effectiveness of the surgical safety checklist (SSC) in countries with different socioeconomic backgrounds is uncertain. To evaluate the effect of the SSC in 2 different socioeconomic settings, we compared surgical site infection (SSI) rates before and after its implementation in colorectal procedures.
Methods:
An epidemiological...
Purpose: The purpose was to describe patients and informal caregivers’ perspectives on how to improve and monitor care during transitions from hospital to home as part of a larger research study to prioritize the components that most influence the development of successful care transition interventions.
Methods: We conducted a qualitative descripti...
Background
Research has shown that adverse events during care transitions from hospital to home can have a significant impact on patients’ outcomes, leading to readmission, delayed healing or even death. Gaps exist in the ways of monitoring care during transition periods and there is a need to help organizations better implement and monitor safe pe...
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Background:
Urinary catheters are a common medical intervention, yet they can also be associated with harmful adverse events such as infection, urinary tract trauma, delirium and patient discomfort. The purpose of this study was to describe the use of the SafetyLEAP program to drive improvement efforts, and specifically to reduce the use of urinar...
Background:
With age, the acuity of the five senses (i.e., hearing, sight, taste, smell, touch) is reduced. These types of sensory changes can affect day-to-day activities, making it more difficult for individuals to communicate and to interact with the world around them. The five senses allow us to receive information from the environment in the...
Introduction
This systematic scoping review will explore the role of regulation on the care of older people living with depression in long-term care. Depression presents a significant burden to older people living in long-term care. Regulation in the long-term care sector has increased, but there are still concerns about quality of care in the sect...
Background:
Older adults with multiple chronic conditions typically have more complex care needs that require multiple transitions between healthcare settings. Poor care transitions often lead to fragmentation in care, decreased quality of care, and increased adverse events. Emerging research recommends the strong need to engage patients and famil...
Background:
As the population ages, the need for appropriate geriatric rehabilitation services will also increase. Pressures faced by hospitals to reduce length of stay and reduce costs have driven the need for more complex care being delivered in the home or community setting. As a result, a multifaceted approach that can provide geriatric rehabi...
Purpose
Patient safety remains a top priority in healthcare. Many organisations have developed systems to monitor and prevent harm, and have invested in different approaches to quality improvement. Despite these organisational efforts to better detect adverse events, efficient resolution of safety problems remains a significant challenge. We devel...
There is an increasing need for an interoperable healthcare data system that provides a shared common view of the essential data for a person to any healthcare provider involved in the circle of care regardless of where provider or person are physically located or what organization they belong to. This paper introduces a framework that characterize...
Background
Care transitions from the hospital to home are critical to the sustainability of our health care system. Ineffective care transitions can be caused by high incidences of post-discharge adverse events, by poor communication with patients, and/or by inadequate information transfer between providers from the hospital to home. Any one of the...
Objective
This study aimed to compare classification of pressure ulcers from administrative data with a gold standard assessment, specifically; pressure ulcers confirmed by an independent physical assessment performed by trained nurse surveyors.
Setting
A retrospective analysis of pooled cross-sectional samples of inpatients assessed across 3 cons...
Measuring and monitoring overall health system performance is complex and challenging but is crucial to improving quality of care. Today’s health care organizations are increasingly being held accountable to develop and implement actions aimed at improving the quality of care, reducing costs, and achieving better patient-centered care. This paper d...
Five years ago, we published a commentary in theCanadian Medical Association Journalarguing that inadequately managed pain in children should be considered an adverse event, a harmful patient outcome. We argued that inadequately managed pain meets the definition of an adverse event and further hypothesized that treating pain as an adverse event may...
Background:
Monitoring the quality of nursing care is essential to identify patients at risk, measure adherence to hospital policies and evaluate the effectiveness of best practice interventions. However, monitoring nursing-sensitive indicators (NSI) is a challenge. Prevalence surveys are one method used by some organizations to monitor NSI, which...
The purpose of this quality improvement project was to determine the feasibility of using provider-led participatory visual methods to scrutinize 4 hospital units' infection prevention and control practices. Methods included provider-led photo walkabouts, photo elicitation sessions, and postimprovement photo walkabouts. Nurses readily engaged in us...
Rational, aims and objectives Many quality problems exist in health care. We aim to investigate the feasibility and acceptability of using e-learning (defined as computer-based learning modules) to address gaps in quality of care.Methods
We performed a qualitative evaluation of participants in a pilot e-learning program. Physician members of six me...
Objectives:
To determine the feasibility of implementing a clinical observation method for adverse event detection.
Methods:
Prospective adverse event surveillance was conducted from February to April 2012. We implemented this adverse event prospective surveillance system on the general internal medicine units of five sites within two teaching i...
The objectives of the study are to observe the overall work environment including infection prevention and control (IP&C) practices on the target surgical unit; to analyse the policies and procedures in the hospital and unit environments; to analyse the barriers and bridges to IP&C that practitioners identify in visual narratives of their unit envi...
The infection rates of multidrug-resistant organisms (MDRO) are increasing in Canada and the United States. The prevention and control of MDRO infections remain an important issue in acute care hospitals. Although comprehensive infection prevention and control programs have been recommended, there is little evidence to date of their effectiveness o...
The objectives of this integrative review were to critically examine the overall state of the current evidence on the relationship between hand hygiene interventions and the incidence of health care-associated infections (HCAIs) in acute care and long-term care settings, and offer recommendations for future directions in the field based on our find...