Improving adherence to appropriate use criteria for paediatric supracondylar humerus fractures: a three-cycle quality improvement project
Osama Embaby, Mahmoud Mersal, Mohamed Elalfy · 2025
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Osama Embaby, Mahmoud Mersal, and Mohamed Elalfy report a quality project on children's elbow fractures in a 2025 paper. The breaks, just above the elbow, are common in childhood, and an academy guide sorts which care counts as appropriate. At a big referral hospital in Egypt, use of the guide varied. The team ran a three-round improvement project from 2021 to 2023 with 178 children in total.
The first round set a baseline, with appropriate care in about sixty-two percent of cases. Teaching sessions and a department protocol lifted that to about seventy-six percent. A third round with refresher training, case talks, wall reminders, and personal feedback pushed the rate to about eighty-eight percent. Rarely appropriate care fell from nineteen percent to about three percent.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Osama Embaby, Mahmoud Mersal, Mohamed Elalfy |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 39 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |