TY - JOUR
AB - This month's quality improvement article (p. 163) emphasizes the importance of high-quality surveys and their role in benchmarking national standards of care. Wilkinson and colleagues discuss the most recent National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death (2014) report, ‘On the Right Trach’, a review of UK hospital tracheostomy care, undertaken with previously well-described National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death methodology. This nationwide survey comes in the wake of the 4th National Audit Project (NAP-4), which implicated tracheostomy devices as the source of considerable morbidity and mortality (Cook et al, 2011).In ‘On the Right Trach’, the assessment of 2000 patients undergoing tracheostomy resulted in 25 key recommendations, focusing on the importance of staff training, familiarisation with equipment and emergency protocols. These recommendations will not surprise staff regularly engaged in tracheostomy care. These guidelines provide an invaluable framework for those who lack confidence or experience to identify and correct deficiencies in their own knowledge. The question remaining is: as clinicians, are we taking due notice of these high quality data and the opportunities they afford or will we continue to stumble in the dark, exposing our patients to undue risk?History of NCEPODSince its inception in 1982 the National 
TI - NCEPOD: benchmarking and shaping practice in surgical care and beyond
JF - British Journal of Hospital Medicine
DO - 10.12968/hmed.2015.76.3.126
DA - 2015-03-02
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/mark-allen-group/ncepod-benchmarking-and-shaping-practice-in-surgical-care-and-beyond-iyJlzyeUKt
SP - 126
EP - 127
VL - 76
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -