Background Double-checking of medication administration is a safety practice used in hospitals around the world. Independence ...

Background Children represent fewer than 10% of emergency medical services (EMS) encounters in the USA. We evaluated whether ...

Crabtree Hall, Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA Correspondence to: N G Castle A640 Crabtree Hall, Graduate School of Public Health, 130 DeSoto Street, Pittsburgh, PA ...

1 Centre for Medicines Safety and Service Quality, Pharmacy Department, Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust, The School of Pharmacy, University of London, London, UK 2 Department of Pharmacy, Kingston ...

The traditional separation of the producers of research evidence in academia from the users of that evidence in healthcare organisations has not succeeded in closing the gap between what is known ...

1 Houston Veterans Affairs Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety, Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center and the Section of Health Services Research, Department of ...

Centre for Quality of Care Research (WOK), University Medical Centre Nijmegen, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands Dr M E J L Hulscher, Centre for Quality of Care Research (WOK), University Medical ...

Correspondence to Dr Rishi Sikka, Advocate Health Care, 3075 Highland Avenue, Suite 600, Downers Grove, Il 60515, USA; rishi.sikka{at}advocatehealth.com In 2008, Donald Berwick and colleagues provided ...

1 School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK 2 School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK 3 Division of Primary Care, ...

Background Teamwork and communication are recognised as key contributors to safe and high-quality patient care. Interventions targeting process and relational aspects of care may therefore provide ...

Overdiagnosis and overtreatment are increasingly highlighted as a significant problem in contemporary healthcare. While not necessarily straightforward to define,1 overdiagnosis and any subsequent ...

Objective Diagnostic delay is a pervasive patient safety problem that disproportionately affects historically underserved populations. We aim to systematically examine and synthesise published ...