OvidDS

NICE Guidelines and Evidence Summaries

https://www.nice.org.uk/covid-19 

Australian National COVID-19 Clinical Evidence Taskforce

https://covid19evidence.net.au/

Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care

https://www.safetyandquality.gov.au/coronavirus-covid-19

Cochrane COVID-19 Rapid Reviews

Coronavirus (COVID-19): evidence relevant to critical care

https://www-cochranelibrary-com.cmdhb.idm.oclc.org/collections/doi/SC000039/full

Coronavirus (COVID-19): infection control and prevention measures

https://www-cochranelibrary-com.cmdhb.idm.oclc.org/collections/doi/SC000040/full

Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists

Clinical guidelines and resources
https://www.rcog.org.uk/en/guidelines-research-services/coronavirus-covid-19-pregnancy-and-womens-health/

COVID-19 information for community based midwives [NZ]

https://www.midwife.org.nz/midwives/covid-19/covid-19-information-for-lmcs/

Other resources on coronavirus disease (COVID-19)

• BMJ
• European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)
• JAMA Network
• The Lancet
• New England Journal of Medicine
• Oxford University Press
• SSRN (Preprints)
• Wiley

COVID-19: Āwhina app

https://www.health.govt.nz/our-work/diseases-and-conditions/covid-19-novel-coronavirus/covid-19-resources-health-professionals/covid-19-awhina-app

Links to QI Leaders

•  The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) has cultivated a list of helpful resources in the context of COVID-19

•  Health & Social Care Quality Improvement Northern Ireland (HSCQI) have been active in helping reconfigure services, designing new services, and supporting teams to work differently to address the challenges of COVID-19. A range of tools used by teams in Trusts and Primary Care to capture learning from COVID-19 are available here.

•  The Health Foundation has a mission to improve health and health care, and are supporting individuals and organisations across the health and social care system to deal with current challenges. Ireland is one of five country partners with the Health Foundation, supporting the Q Community. They build the evidence needed to understand longer-term implications on peoples health, and have developed a series of blogs, long reads, chart series, press releases, consultation responses, and programmes and funding.

•  The East London NHS Foundation Trust Quality Improvement have developed a number of COVID-19 Resources, including Improvement tools and COVID-19 stories, among other resources.

•  Healthcare Improvement Scotland iHub is flexing its resources to directly support the health and social care system to develop and implement changes to services in response to COVID-19. iHub are gathering and sharing examples of emerging practice during COVID-19 through two new, national learning systems.

•  The International Society for Quality in Healthcare (ISQua) has created a Coronavirus Resource Centre. This resource brings together COVID-19 content (including webinars, recordings, articles & links to further resource centres) from across the globe as it is made available.

•   The Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (RCPI) developed a series of 8 free videos with QI tools for maintaining quality and safety during a pandemic. Presented by QI experts who work closely with RCPI, these videos offer practical tools to maintain quality and safety during the Covid-19 pandemic. They and are designed to help anyone working in healthcare, and particularly those working at service level.

•   HSE Library Services has published a national easily-accessible repository of clinical guidance to equip the clinical community in Ireland with the requisite information whilst working within the current COVID-19 environment at: COVID-19 HSE Clinical Guidance and Evidence 

• As part of the COVID-19 stories blog on the Q Community website:
  •  Dr. Philip Crowley, National Director of the National QI Team and Acting National Co-Lead, Public Health Response to COVID-19, kicked off the Q Community COVID stories series with his view from Ireland
  •  Dr. John Fitzsimons, Clinical Director for Quality Improvement, National QI Team, also shared his experience as a paediatrician during the pandemic & the adaptations he made to provide QI education virtually

QI Tools

•  Understanding crisis-response measures: Collective Sense-making (Ian Burbidge)

•  Learning from COVID-19: A tool for capturing insights now to shape the future; - Collaborate for social change

Articles on QI and COVID -19

•  COVID-19: Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Skills to deploy during the surge [International Journal of Quality Care]
   Authors: Anthony Staines, René Amalberti, Donald M Berwick, Jeffrey Braithwaite, Peter Lachman, Charles A Vincent

•  Quality and Safety in the time of Coronavirus – Design Better, Learn Faster. [International Journal of Quality in Healthcare].
   Author: John Fitzsimons