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hilda faragher ([log in to unmask]) has mailed you the following article:
The RCP Information Laboratory (iLab) breaking the cycle of poor data
quality.
http://www.informatics.nhs.uk/item/1320
Message: I found this great article on NHS informatics. Thought you might like it.apologies to all who have already seen this, but it may be of interst to some.
Hilda
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Some of the issues surrounding the quality of hospital episode
statistics and the role of the iLab in helping to improve data quality
have been reviewed in an article by Giles P Croft and Jon G Williams.
This follows the NHS Audit Commission statement that a lack of clinical
involvement in the validation and use of centrally held activity data is
one of the key issues in under developed clinical data.
The article examines the recommendation of a closer relationship between
clinicians and coding staff made in Kennedy's report of the Bristol
Enquiry. It highlights that a subsequent review of Kennedy's report has
found that three years on have only produced slow progress.
Giles P Croft and Jon G Williams latest article suggests that `steps
must be undertaken to engage clinicians at a level whereby the
information is made readily available, accessible in format and of use
to clinical practice'.
The Royal College of Physicians Information Laboratory (iLab) aims to
address this problem by widening access to, and the understanding of,
the data collected and held in the Hospital Episode Statistics Database
(HES, England) and the Patient Episode Database Wales (PEDW).
Consultants who have used the iLab facility report have fed back genuine
surprise at the apparent usefulness and potential that such data will
have on their own practice and that of the unit in which they work.
The article makes two suggestions for breaking the cycle of poor data
quality:
engage individual clinicians and involve them in the process of
highlighting areas for improvement
use what information is there, embrace the issues and encourage change.
To view this article in full follow link below
http://hiu.rcplondon.ac.uk/documents/iLab_clinmed05.pdf
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