Fifth patient report of the National Emergency Laparotomy Audit (NELA): December 2017 to November 2018

Royal College of Anaesthetists - Commissioned by the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership as part of the National Clinical Audit Programme, this report analyses the care received by close to 25,000 emergency bowel surgery patients treated in NHS hospitals in England and Wales between December 2017 and November 2018. Amongst the findings is that time to antibiotics in patients with sepsis remains poor with 80.6 per cent not receiving antibiotics within one hour. The report is the fifth report of NELA and offers a series of recommendations to reduce variation in the care of patients undergoing emergency bowel surgery.ReportMore detail
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - Category: UK Health Authors: Tags: Patient safety Quality of care and clinical outcomes Source Type: blogs