1 Department of Family Medicine and MEDEX Northwest, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA 2 Department of Biobehavioral Nursing, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA 3 ...

Context Health consumer escalation of acute deterioration response systems are now widely available to help facilitate early recognition and response to acute deterioration in hospitals. Yet, a ...

Background Healthcare patient safety investigations inappropriately focus on individual culpability and the target of ...

Correspondence to Dr Milagros Ruiz, Dr Foster Unit, PCPH Imperial College London, 3 Dorset Rise, London EC4Y 8EN, UK; m.ruiz{at}imperial.ac.uk Objective To examine the association of mortality by day ...

2 Professor of General Practice, Department of General Practice, University of Antwerp, Universiteitsplein 1, 2610 Antwerp, Belgium 3 Professor of Quality in Health Care, Clinical Governance Research ...

Setting Clusters were 33 hospital wards within five hospitals in the UK. Participants All patients able to give informed consent were eligible to take part. Wards were allocated to the intervention or ...

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 ...

Institute for Healthcare Improvement, 375 Longwood Avenue, 4th Floor, Boston, MA 02215, USA Correspondence to: D M Berwick Institute for Healthcare Improvement, 375 Longwood Avenue, 4th Floor, Boston, ...

Qualitative research can make a valuable contribution to the study of quality and safety in health care. Sound ways of appraising qualitative research are needed, but currently there are many ...

Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics (LIME), Medical Management Centre (MMC), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden Correspondence to Susanne Ullström, Department of Learning, ...

Introduction Duplicate medical records occur when a single patient is assigned multiple medical record numbers within an instance of an electronic health record, potentially associated with fragmented ...

Background Health systems worldwide are increasingly holding boards of healthcare organisations accountable for the quality of care that they provide. Previous empirical research has found ...