EBVM & QI - In Practice Flashcards
(9 cards)
How to keep in touch with the latest evidence?
- RCVS Knowledge
- Subscribe to In Focus email updates
- Subscribe to journals
- Look out for published guidelines
- Enrol on CPD and attend conferences
- Head office protocols
- Discuss cases with colleagues (including students)
- Speak to your pharmaceutical reps
- Judicious internet searches and social media pages/groups
Quality Improvement in Practice
Definition
Continuous effort by everyone in the practice team to make changes that lead to better patient outcomes
Putting QI into Practice
- Perform clinical audits
- Make use of benchmarks
- Carry out significant event audits
- Follow published guidelines
- Use checklists
- Perform Clinical Audits
- Choose topic
- Select criteria
- Set target
- Collect data
- Analyse data
- Implement change
- QI - Use benchmarks
Vet Audit
RCVS knowledge
- Carry out significant event audits
Mortality and Morbidity rounds
- 1x/ mth
- discuss as practice team 1 or 2 cases as a team where there was an unfavourable outcome
- Consider factors that contribute to outcome
- suggest changes and recover from error
Contributing Factors:
Patient factors
Task factors
Team factors
Individual factors
Communication factors
Training factors
Working conditions factors
- QI - follow published guidelines
RUMA - Responsible use of medicines in agriculture alliance
IRIS - international renal interest society
Journal of Internal veterinary medicine
- QI - Use checklists
Eg:
Pre-anaesthetic
Prior to closure
Post closure
