Benchmarking evidence-based care.
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Benchmarking↗
Biomedical subjects
S Feasey
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Quality counts: auditing day-surgery services.
Clinical audit is a valuable tool in the drive towards quality. Day-case surgery is designed to keep children within their families. Parents of children having day-case surgery must be adequately informed and supported. A telephone call following day-case surgery appears to give parents effective support. Children experience few problems immediately following day-case surgery.
Adolescent↗
Are Newcastle urine collection pads suitable as a means of collecting specimens from infants?
The collection of uncontaminated urine specimens from infants is not straightforward. This quasi-experimental study was designed to investigate whether 'Newcastle urine collection pads' are suitable for this purpose. A minimum of two urine specimens were collected from 50 children aged one day to five years, one using a pad and the other by using a sterile adhesive bag. Since pad specimens successfully demonstrated the presence of urinary tract infection and a lower contamination rate than bag specimens; it is concluded that they are suitable. Pad specimens contained fewer cells than bag specimens, which must be acknowledged by clinicians.
Child, Preschool↗