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Acute Kidney Injury:
Adding Insult to Injury (2009)

This NCEPOD report highlights the process of care of patients who died in hospital with a primary diagnosis of acute kidney injury (AKI). It takes a critical look at areas where the care of patients might have been improved. Remediable factors have been identified in the clinical and the organisational care of these patients.

Systemic Anti-Cancer Therapy:
For better, for worse? (2008)

This NCEPOD report highlights the process of care of patients who died within 30 days of receiving systemic anti-cancer therapy (SACT). It takes a critical look at areas where the care of patients might have been improved. Remediable factors have been identified in the clinical and the organisational care of these patients.

Coronary Artery Bypass Grafts:
The heart of the matter (2008)

This NCEPOD report analyses the care of a sample of patients who in the majority did not survive to leave hospital following their CABG operation. It takes a critical look at the selection of the surgery and the strategy and the organisational factors involved in its implementation.

Sickle: A sickle crisis? (2008)

NCEPOD was pleased to undertake a review of current haemoglobinopathy mortality, to obtain broad baseline data and make recommendations to alter practice. In this way, we hope to contribute to improving the quality of life of patients - whose numbers and attendances at health care centres are inevitably going to increase.

Trauma:
Who Cares? (2007)

This study shows a rounded picture of current trauma care provision in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Offshore Islands. It draws on data provided by the clinicians involved in the care of these patients (from questionnaires) and data extracted from the casenotes. However, these data are accompanied by peer review, by practising clinicians involved in the day-to-day care of trauma patients, to give a much richer picture than a purely quantitative assessment would allow.

Emergency Admissions:
A journey in the right direction? (2007)

In this study, NCEPOD has assessed organisational and clinical aspects of both the immediate and ongoing care of patients admitted as emergencies. The report highlights remediable factors in existing care pathways, particularly the appropriateness, timeliness and frequency of investigations and reviews, the experience of staff and the availability of results, protocols and procedures.

The Coroner's Autopsy:
Do we deserve better? (2006)

Following a proposal from the Royal College of Pathologists, NCEPOD has reviewed, in detail, the autopsy reports produced for the coroners; this includes both deaths in hospitals and in the community.