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AIMS AND METHOD: Serious incident management and organisational learning are international patient safety priorities. Little is known about the quality of suicide investigations and, in turn, the potential for organisational learning. Suicide risk assessment is acknowledged as a complex phenomenon, particularly in the context of adult community mental health services. Root cause analysis (RCA) is the dominant investigative approach, although the evidence base underpinning RCA is contested, with little attention paid to the patient in context and their cumulative risk over time. RESULTS: Recent literature proposes a safety-II approach in response to the limitations of RCA. The importance of applying these approaches within a mental healthcare system that advocates a zero suicide framework, grounded in a restorative just culture, is highlighted. CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS: Although integrative reviews and syntheses have clear methodological limitations, this approach facilitates the management of a disparate body of work to advance a critical understanding of patient safety in adult community mental healthcare.
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BACKGROUND: Multimorbidity is common, and care is impacted by patient life context. Effective, efficient interventions to improve patient-centered outcomes such as perceived treatment burden are limited. There is a need for interventions that integrate patient contextual information into primary care encounters to improve such outcomes. Patient life context is a multitude of factors that influence a patient's life and healthcare, including social determinants of health and broader elements such as family and work demands. METHODS: This pilot randomized controlled trial (RCT) protocol will compare standard pre-visit planning to context-informed pre-visit planning that incorporates the patient's life context, for patients with diabetes plus other chronic comorbid conditions. Primary outcomes include measures of trial protocol and intervention feasibility and acceptability: physician study and visit perceived burden, patient satisfaction, and patient, physician and staff experience with the trial. Additional measurements of intervention impact include: initial estimates of effect size on patient treatment burden and other patient-oriented outcomes, change in glycemic control, and other intermediate medical outcomes. DISCUSSION: This intervention is novel as it collects patient life context information using a direct person-to-person approach, allows physicians to review the information prior to patient arrival at the clinic and, where appropriate, incorporate it when negotiating treatment plans, and is longitudinal, summarizing evolving contextual information over time. This pilot RCT has the potential to demonstrate trial protocol and intervention feasibility and acceptability, and estimate effect size on patient and provider outcomes, to inform for a future, definitive RCT.Trial Registration: This trial was registered at ClinicalTrials.gov prior to patient enrollment: NCT04568382.
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La Atención Primaria de Salud ocupa un lugar esencial en las Ciencias Médicas en Cuba. Una de las temáticas de mayor discusión en ésta estrategia lo constituye la relación entre las dimensiones del enfoque salubrista y el cuidado del adulto mayor hipertenso en la comunidad. Abordar este fenómeno desde la perspectiva de enfermería permite describe la sistemia que se establece entre ellas, utilizando para tal efecto los constructos: origen, estructura y funcionamiento lo que aportó la génesis, el hábitat y la articulación de elementos en la búsqueda de una propuesta atinada al problema de la insuficiencia objeto de descripción. Se concluye que la relación descrita se realiza a partir de una necesidad local concerniente con el insuficiente cuidado del adulto mayor hipertenso en la comunidad. Ésta, se nutre en su estructura del nexo enfermero-paciente-contexto, la cual funciona de forma integrada donde cada componente de este enfoque aporta a la relación el logro del objetivo propuesto(AU)
Primary Health Attention is given a lot of attention in Medical Sciences in Cuba. One of the difficulties discussed when talking about these terms has been the relationship between the dimensions of the salubrista approach and the management of hypertensive elderly in the community. This view deals with the systemic link that is established between them all, using origin, structure and functioning in the form of genesis, habitat and articulation of elements in the finding of a proposal to solve the problem already presented. It is concluded that the connection described is derived from a local need related to the insufficiencies detected in terms of management of the hypertensive elderly from the nursing point of view in the community. It is structured by using the nexus nurse-patient -context which works systemically and where each element helps to fulfil the objective proposed(AU)