P67 Development of a data quality framework for health and social care – a strategic approach to assess and improve the quality of health data and information in ireland

Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to improve the consistency and quality of the response to vulnerable adults who experience abuse and neglect within NHS, independent healthcare and social care settings is noted by practitioners, agencies and patients. Health and social care policy frameworks promote principles of service improvement and consistency, along with a focus on outcomes and resource effectiveness and interagency collaboration. The Protection of Vulnerable Adults (POVA) coordinator role carries the responsibility of coordinating a response to individual referrals of abuse and neglect as described as part of the Designated Lead Manager role in the Wales Interim POVA Policy and Procedures for the POVA from abuse (Wales Adult Protection Coordinators Group, 2013). Design/methodology/approach – This paper will explore the benefits realised through a registered nurse being seconded from the Aneurin Bevan University Health Board into a newly created joint adult protection Health Coordinator post within the Caerphilly County Borough Council social services department POVA team. Findings – This is the first example of such partnership working in adult protection in Wales and has provided a number of benefits in relation to: providing adult protection advice; coordinating the response to referrals of vulnerable adult abuse and neglect within health and social care settings; carrying out or buddying others to complete adult protection investigations; facilitating the two day non-criminal POVA investigation training course and, awareness raising within the local Health Board. The development of a student nurse placement in the social services POVA team cements the multiagency collaborative approach that this development sought to achieve. Originality/value – The need to improve the consistency and quality of the response to vulnerable adults who experience abuse and neglect within NHS, independent healthcare and social care settings is noted by practitioners, agencies and patients.

Download Full-text

Improving Data Quality in Health Care

Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Second Edition ◽

10.4018/978-1-60566-026-4.ch295 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 1877-1881

Author(s):

Karolyn Kerr ◽

Tony Norris

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

New Zealand ◽

Data Quality ◽

Good Practice ◽

Health Data ◽

Strategic Approach ◽

The Right ◽

Data Collections ◽

And Control ◽

Care Demands

The increasingly information intensive nature of health care demands a proactive and strategic approach to data quality to ensure the right information is available to the right person at the right time in the right format. The approach must also encompass the rights of the patient to have their health data protected and used in an ethical way. This article describes the principles to establish good practice and overcome practical barriers that define and control data quality in health data collections and the mechanisms and frameworks that can be developed to achieve and sustain quality. The experience of a national health data quality project in New Zealand is used to illustrate the issues.

Download Full-text

Improving Data Quality in Health Care

Health Information Systems ◽

10.4018/978-1-60566-988-5.ch015 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 218-225 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Karolyn Kerr ◽

Tony Norris

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

New Zealand ◽

Data Quality ◽

Good Practice ◽

Health Data ◽

Strategic Approach ◽

The Right ◽

Data Collections ◽

And Control ◽

Care Demands

The increasingly information intensive nature of health care demands a proactive and strategic approach to data quality to ensure the right information is available to the right person at the right time in the right format. The approach must also encompass the rights of the patient to have their health data protected and used in an ethical way. This article describes the principles to establish good practice and overcome practical barriers that define and control data quality in health data collections and the mechanisms and frameworks that can be developed to achieve and sustain quality. The experience of a national health data quality project in New Zealand is used to illustrate the issues.

Download Full-text

A multi-method quality improvement approach to systematically improve and promote the quality of national health and social care information

Health Information Management Journal ◽

10.1177/1833358320926422 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 183335832092642

Author(s):

Niamh McGrath ◽

Barbara Foley ◽

Caroline Hurley ◽

Maria Ryan ◽

Rachel Flynn

Keyword(s):

Quality Improvement ◽

Health Information ◽

Information Management ◽

Management Practices ◽

Clinical Decision Making ◽

Social Care ◽

Good Practice ◽

Improvement Program ◽

Health And Social Care

Safe and reliable healthcare depends on access to health information that is accurate, valid, reliable, timely, relevant, legible and complete. National data collections are repositories of health and social care data and play a crucial role in healthcare planning and clinical decision-making. We describe the development of an evidence-informed multi-method quality improvement program aimed to improve the quality of health and social care data in Ireland. Specific components involved: development of guidance to support implementation of health information standards; review program to assess compliance with standards; and educating health information stakeholders about health data and information quality. Observations from implementation of the program indicate enhanced health information stakeholder awareness of, and increased adoption of information management standards. The methodology used in the review program has proved to be a robust approach to identify areas of good practice and opportunities for improvement in information management practices. There has been positive adoption of the program among organisations reviewed and acceptance of the proposed recommendations. Early indications are that this multi-method approach will drive improvements in information management practices, leading to an improvement in health and social care data quality in Ireland. Aspects of this approach may be adapted to meet the needs of other countries.

Download Full-text

Investigating the relative value of health and social care related quality of life using a discrete choice experiment

Social Science & Medicine ◽

10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.05.032 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 233 ◽

pp. 28-37 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Brendan Mulhern ◽

Richard Norman ◽

Richard De Abreu Lourenco ◽

Juliette Malley ◽

Deborah Street ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Discrete Choice Experiment ◽

Discrete Choice ◽

Choice Experiment ◽

Social Care ◽

Relative Value ◽

Health And Social Care ◽

Related Quality ◽

Value Of Health

Download Full-text

Valuing the impact of health and social care programs using social return on investment analysis: how have academics advanced the methodology? A systematic review

BMJ Open ◽

10.1136/bmjopen-2019-029789 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 9 (8) ◽

pp. e029789 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Claire Louise Hutchinson ◽

Angela Berndt ◽

Deborah Forsythe ◽

Susan Gilbert-Hunt ◽

Stacey George ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Systematic Review ◽

Return On Investment ◽

Social Care ◽

Assessment Tool ◽

Research Question ◽

Social Return On Investment ◽

Health And Social Care ◽

Wide Range ◽

The Impact

ObjectivesTo identify how social return on investment (SROI) analysis—traditionally used by business consultants—has been interpreted, used and innovated by academics in the health and social care sector and to assess the quality of peer-reviewed SROI studies in this sector.DesignSystematic review.SettingsCommunity and residential settings.ParticipantsA wide range of demographic groups and age groups.ResultsThe following databases were searched: Web of Science, Scopus, CINAHL, Econlit, Medline, PsychINFO, Embase, Emerald, Social Care Online and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. Limited uptake of SROI methodology by academics was found in the health and social care sector. From 868 papers screened, 8 studies met the criteria for inclusion in this systematic review. Study quality was found to be highly variable, ranging from 38% to 90% based on scores from a purpose-designed quality assessment tool. In general, relatively high consistency and clarity was observed in the reporting of the research question, reasons for using this methodology and justifying the need for the study. However, weaknesses were observed in other areas including justifying stakeholders, reporting sample sizes, undertaking sensitivity analysis and reporting unexpected or negative outcomes. Most papers cited links to additional materials to aid in reporting. There was little evidence that academics had innovated or advanced the methodology beyond that outlined in a much-cited SROI guide.ConclusionAcademics have thus far been slow to adopt SROI methodology in the evaluation of health and social care interventions, and there is little evidence of innovation and development of the methodology. The word count requirements of peer-reviewed journals may make it difficult for authors to be fully transparent about the details of their studies, potentially impacting the quality of reporting in those studies published in these journals.PROSPERO registration numberCRD42018080195.

Download Full-text

Time for some home truths – exploring the relationship between GPs and social workers

Journal of Integrated Care ◽

10.1108/jica-02-2014-0008 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 22 (2) ◽

pp. 51-61 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Catherine Mangan ◽

Robin Miller ◽

Jeremy Cooper

Keyword(s):

Social Workers ◽

Social Care ◽

Response Rate ◽

Poor Quality ◽

Content Type ◽

Care Services ◽

Health And Social Care ◽

The Impact ◽

The Relationship

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between general practitioners (GPs) and social care professionals by reflecting on a project (the Home Truths project) which sought to improve joint working between general practice and social care though an action-research process. Design/methodology/approach – iMPOWER's Home Truths project involved gathering local data regarding joint working in local areas and using this data as a catalyst for change. The Institute of Local Government Studies and the Health Services Management Centre at the University of Birmingham were asked to act as a critical friend to the project. This involved supporting the design of the data collection, offering advice on the process and to carrying out a short evaluation of the impact of the first wave. The paper reflects on the collected data from the sites and information from the impact evaluation. Findings – The paper highlights the poor quality of the relationship between GPs and social workers. Findings that illustrate this include GPs’ poor knowledge of social care services; a perception that social care services were of poor quality and rating the quality of their relationships with social workers as poor. However GPs felt that knowing more about social care could help prevent their patients going into residential care earlier than necessary and wanted to work more closely with social care to exploit the benefits and opportunities. The interventions that have been put in place to try and improve relationships focus on the day-to-day working lives of the professionals rather than attempting to introduce new initiatives. Research limitations/implications – The response rate from GPs in the areas was low (average response rate was 10 per cent in each area) and it may be that only those GPs who are interested in working with social care responded. The initiatives that have been developed appear to be reasonable responses to the issues identified. However, a lack of discrete outcomes through which to measure improvement will make it difficult to demonstrate the impact of the interventions. Originality/value – This paper underlines that despite many years of policy makers promoting better integration, the relationship between the key gate-keepers within the health and social care systems is still poor. The findings from the Home Truths surveys and action plans has gone some way to address the gap identified in the evidence base about the relationships between GPs and social workers.

Download Full-text

Using the Data Quality Dashboard to Improve the EHDEN Network

10.20944/preprints202111.0073.v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Clair Blacketer ◽

Erica A Voss ◽

Frank DeFalco ◽

Nigel Hughes ◽

Martijn J Schuemie ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Clinical Practice ◽

Data Quality ◽

Baseline Level ◽

Health Data ◽

Quality Of Data ◽

Regulatory Decision ◽

Standard Data ◽

Network Methods

Background: Observational health data has the potential to be a rich resource to inform clinical practice and regulatory decision making. However, the lack of standard data quality processes makes it difficult to know if these data are research ready. The EHDEN COVID-19 Rapid Col-laboration Call presented the opportunity to assess how the newly developed open-source tool Data Quality Dashboard (DQD) informs the quality of data in a federated network. Methods: 15 Data Partners (DPs) from 10 different countries worked with the EHDEN taskforce to map their data to the OMOP CDM. Throughout the process at least two DQD results were collected and compared for each DP. Results: All DPs showed an improvement in their data quality between the first and last run of the DQD. The DQD excelled at helping DPs identify and fix conformance is-sues but showed less of an impact on completeness and plausibility checks. Conclusions: This is the first study to apply the DQD on multiple, disparate databases across a network. While study-specific checks should still be run, we recommend that all data holders converting their data to the OMOP CDM use the DQD as it ensures conformance to the model specifications and that a database meets a baseline level of completeness and plausibility for use in research.

Download Full-text

DISABILITY DUE TO THE CLASS OF RESPIRATORY DISEASES IN ELDERLY PEOPLE

Medical and Social Expert Evaluation and Rehabilitation ◽

10.18821/1560-9537-2017-20-2-69-74 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 20 (2) ◽

pp. 69-74

Author(s):

Marina A. Shurgaya

Keyword(s):

Respiratory Diseases ◽

Social Care ◽

Preventive Measures ◽

Quality Standards ◽

The Elderly ◽

Elderly Age ◽

Geriatric Population ◽

Health And Social Care ◽

Functional Features

The main strategic task of the provision for health and social care and alimentation of the quality of life in the elderly patient is the implementation of clinical, diagnostic and preventive measures, taking into account characteristics of the course of different diseases in geriatric population. In an article there are highlighted modern approaches to the diagnosis and treatment of bronchial asthma, which is the leading pathology that determines the morbidity and disability due to diseases of the respiratory system in elderly citizens. Accounting for the morphological and functional features of the elderly age allows provide the medical and social care and achieve quality standards in the treatment of asthma in the geriatric population.

Download Full-text