NEPHwork: creating a quality improvement and research network for UK renal trainees

BMJ Open Quality

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Kirsty Crowe¹  Manuela Savino²  Jennifer Williams³  Muhammad Amaran⁴  Toby Humphrey⁵  James Medcalf⁶ 

[1] Glasgow Renal and Transplant Unit;Renal Service , Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust;College of Medicine and Health , University of Exeter;Renal Unit , St George's Hospital;Department of Nephrology , Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust;1 Glasgow Renal and Transplant Unit , NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde , Glasgow , UK 2 Renal Service , Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust , London , UK 3 College of Medicine and Health , University of Exeter , Exeter , UK 4 Renal Unit , St George's Hospital , London , UK 5 Department of Nephrology , Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust , Cambridge , UK 6 John Walls Renal Unit , University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

关键词: quality improvement methodologies;    collaborative;    breakthrough groups;    medical education;    registries;    acute kidney injury;   

DOI  :  10.1136/bmjoq-2022-001980

学科分类：药学

来源: BMJ Publishing Group

【 摘 要 】

NEPHwork was established in 2020 as a renal specialty trainee-driven national quality improvement and research network with the aim of coupling the benefits of trainee-led collaboration with the rich data collection infrastructure established by the UK renal registry. NEPHwork was established to support the development, coordination and delivery of audit and research projects by renal trainees on a national scale. The first collaborative project centred on the compliance with care quality standards in managing acute kidney injury. The project enabled a large amount of data to be collected over a relatively short period of time and allowed comparison between renal units involved in contributing to the data. The initiation of the NEPHwork collaboration had to overcome delays and service pressure related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Furthermore, the method of linkage analysis used in the data collection and lack of cohesion with regional information technology (IT) services prevented trainees from certain regions from contributing to the project and this is a key priority for the next NEPHwork collaboration.quality improvement methodologiescollaborative, breakthrough groupsmedical educationregistriesacute kidney injuryData availability statementData are available on reasonable request.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.

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