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When emergency physicians meet patients displaying irritable behaviours: a randomised vignette-based experiment investigating physicians’ emotions and clini…

Background Clinical encounters with patients who display challenging behaviours (eg, rude, demanding) are increasingly common ...
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Audit and feedback in primary care: if you build it, will they come? Understanding which clinicians engage with an audit and feedback intervention

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Evaluating the effects of increasing nursing numbers on quality of newborn care in understaffed neonatal units in Kenya: a prospective intervention study ...
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Ignaz Semmelweis and the birth of infection control

Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Case School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA Correspondence to: Professor D Neuhauser Department of Epidemiology and ...
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Missed nursing care is linked to patient satisfaction: a cross-sectional study of US hospitals

Background As nurses are the principal care provider in the hospital setting, the completion or omission of nursing care is likely to have a sizable impact on the patient care experience. However, ...
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Demystifying theory and its use in improvement

The role and value of theory in improvement work in healthcare has been seriously underrecognised. We join others in proposing that more informed use of theory can strengthen improvement programmes ...
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Measuring patient safety climate: a review of surveys

1 Department of Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH, USA 2 Departments of Pediatrics and of Internal Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH, USA 3 Veterans ...
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The published literature on handoffs in hospitals: deficiencies identified in an extensive review

School of Information, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA Correspondence to Professor Michael D Cohen, School of Information, University of Michigan, 1085 South University Avenue, 312 ...
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Communication failures in the operating room: an observational classification of recurrent types and effects

Footnotes This research was funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the Physicians of Ontario through the PSI Foundation. L Lingard is supported by a CIHR New Investigator ...
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Evaluation of the implementation of the alert issued by the UK National Patient Safety Agency on the storage and handling of potassium chloride concentrate solution

Correspondence to: Dr A J Lankshear Department of Health Sciences, Seebohm-Rowntree Building, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK; al25york.ac.uk Objectives: To assess the effectiveness of the ...
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Overuse of diagnostic testing in healthcare: a systematic review

Background Overuse of diagnostic testing substantially contributes to healthcare expenses and potentially exposes patients to unnecessary harm. Our objective was to systematically identify and examine ...