A national quality improvement programme to improve survival after emergency abdominal surgery: the EPOCH stepped-wedge cluster RCT

• Main Authors: Carol J Peden (Author), Tim Stephens (Author), Graham Martin (Author), Brennan C Kahan (Author), Ann Thomson (Author), Kirsty Everingham (Author), David Kocman (Author), Jose Lourtie (Author), Sharon Drake (Author), Alan Girling (Author), Richard Lilford (Author), Kate Rivett (Author), Duncan Wells (Author), Ravi Mahajan (Author), Peter Holt (Author), Fan Yang (Author), Simon Walker (Author), Gerry Richardson (Author), Sally Kerry (Author), Iain Anderson (Author), Dave Murray (Author), David Cromwell (Author), Mandeep Phull (Author), Mike PW Grocott (Author), Julian Bion (Author), Rupert M Pearse (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: National Institute for Health Research, 2019-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Emergency abdominal surgery is associated with poor patient outcomes. We studied the effectiveness of a national quality improvement (QI) programme to implement a care pathway to improve survival for these patients. Objectives: The objectives were to assess whether or not the QI programm...