To Prescribe or Not to Prescribe: A Quality Improvement Project in Improving Resident Doctors’ Confidence in Managing Acute Behavioural Disturbance
Aims: The management of acute behavioural disturbances necessitates an appreciation for the potential methods, risks, and monitoring requirements needed following assessment and initiation of management. A previous quality improvement project highlighted variability in clinicians initiating rapid tr...
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| description | Aims: The management of acute behavioural disturbances necessitates an appreciation for the potential methods, risks, and monitoring requirements needed following assessment and initiation of management. A previous quality improvement project highlighted variability in clinicians initiating rapid tranquillisation agents in response to the same clinical vignette. This study aimed to improve Resident doctors’ confidence in deciding to use pharmacological or non-pharmacological methods in managing acute disturbance by 25%. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-e568d45678e54f7da6ac87ab20680b912025-08-20T03:15:29ZengCambridge University PressBJPsych Open2056-47242025-06-0111S114S11410.1192/bjo.2025.10329To Prescribe or Not to Prescribe: A Quality Improvement Project in Improving Resident Doctors’ Confidence in Managing Acute Behavioural DisturbanceZuhair Ahmad0Rooble Ali1Deenan Edward2Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, Redhill, United KingdomSurrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust, Redhill, United KingdomSurrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Redhill, United KingdomAims: The management of acute behavioural disturbances necessitates an appreciation for the potential methods, risks, and monitoring requirements needed following assessment and initiation of management. A previous quality improvement project highlighted variability in clinicians initiating rapid tranquillisation agents in response to the same clinical vignette. This study aimed to improve Resident doctors’ confidence in deciding to use pharmacological or non-pharmacological methods in managing acute disturbance by 25%.https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2056472425103293/type/journal_article |
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| title | To Prescribe or Not to Prescribe: A Quality Improvement Project in Improving Resident Doctors’ Confidence in Managing Acute Behavioural Disturbance |
| title_full | To Prescribe or Not to Prescribe: A Quality Improvement Project in Improving Resident Doctors’ Confidence in Managing Acute Behavioural Disturbance |
| title_fullStr | To Prescribe or Not to Prescribe: A Quality Improvement Project in Improving Resident Doctors’ Confidence in Managing Acute Behavioural Disturbance |
| title_full_unstemmed | To Prescribe or Not to Prescribe: A Quality Improvement Project in Improving Resident Doctors’ Confidence in Managing Acute Behavioural Disturbance |
| title_short | To Prescribe or Not to Prescribe: A Quality Improvement Project in Improving Resident Doctors’ Confidence in Managing Acute Behavioural Disturbance |
| title_sort | to prescribe or not to prescribe a quality improvement project in improving resident doctors confidence in managing acute behavioural disturbance |
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