Since 2017, the YQSR team have been undertaking research investigating patient and family involvement in detecting and escalating deterioration in hospital, culminating in the publications listed below.
Based on this work, the team have developed and evaluated a simple patient wellness questionnaire that allows patients or their relatives to provide information about their condition as a routine part of their care. Here we provide guidance on how to implement this as part of Martha’s rule.
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Publications
Albutt, A. K., O’Hara, J. K., Conner, M. T., Fletcher, S. J., & Lawton, R. J. (2017). Is there a role for patients and their relatives in escalating clinical deterioration in hospital? A systematic review. Health Expectations, 20(5), 818-825.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/hex.12496
Albutt, A., O’Hara, J., Conner, M., & Lawton, R. (2020). Involving patients in recognising clinical deterioration in hospital using the Patient Wellness Questionnaire: A mixed-methods study. Journal of Research in Nursing, 25(1), 68-86.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1744987119867744
Albutt, A., O’Hara, J., Conner, M., & Lawton, R. (2021). Can routinely collected, patient-reported wellness predict National Early Warning Scores? A multilevel modeling approach. Journal of Patient Safety, 17(8), 548.