Our paper highlighted the awareness of multiple risks that colours hospital-based respiratory clinicians’ views on offering rescue packs on hospital discharge to patients with #COPD exacerbation.

Read our paper to find out more!
doi.org/10.1080/1541...

@asthmaandlung.org.uk #rescuepacks #AMR

Our research examines features from identifiers used for patients with dementia and compares with other common types of visual identifier.

Full paper: buff.ly/EB9jTZL

THIS summary: ths.im/4dAgitK

And a great editorial:

Identifying patients with additional needs isn’t enough to improve care: harnessing the benefits and avoiding the pitfalls of classification

Natalie Armstrong, Elizabeth Sutton, Sarah Chew, Carolyn Tarrant

qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/33/3...

@bmj.com BMJ Q&S

Qual study:

Visual identifiers for people with dementia in hospitals: a qualitative study to unravel mechanisms of action for improving quality of care

qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/32/1...

E Sutton, N Armstrong, @louiselocock.bsky.social @acutefrailty-doc.bsky.social, C Tarrant

@bmj.com BMJ Q&S

Participatory approach

Using experience-based co-design (EBCD) to develop high-level design principles for a visual identification system for people with dementia in acute hospital ward settings

bmjopen.bmj.com/content/13/5...

AS Macdonald, K Kuberska, N Stockley, B Fitzsimons

@bmj.com BMJ Open

For a discussion of ethical principles around using visual identifiers:

A Principle-Based Approach to Visual Identification Systems for Hospitalized People with Dementia

by T.V. Brigden, C. Mitchell, K. Kuberska & A. Hall

@bioethicalinquiry.bsky.social

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

For info on how visual identifiers are used in UK hospitals:

Visual identifier systems for patients with cognitive impairment in healthcare settings: a survey of practice in UK hospitals
by @kkuberska.bsky.social @marydixonwoods.bsky.social, @instagraham.bsky.social in @intjnlopn.bsky.social

This paper follows a series of other papers examining the use of visual identifiers for people with dementia that came out of the DA VINCI study (Developing a visual identification method for people with cognitive impairment in institutional settings)
www.thisinstitute.cam.ac.uk/research/pro...