Correspondence to Dr Medley O'Keefe Gatewood, Division of Emergency Medicine, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA 98195, USA; medley{at}uw.edu Background Sepsis causes substantial ...
1 Division of Physical Therapy Education, School of Allied Health Professions, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, USA 2 Department of Biostatistics, College of Public Health, ...
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 ...
Background: Most studies of healthcare complications identify surgery as a major contributor to the overall burden of complicated care that leads to injury or death. Indeed, surgical adverse events ...
Correspondence to Dr Sigall K Bell, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 330 Brookline Ave; CO-1309, Boston, MA 02215, USA; sbell1{at}bidmc.harvard.edu Background OpenNotes, a ...
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 ...
Objective To contextualise the degree of harm that comes from unsafe medical care compared with individual health conditions using the global burden of disease (GBD), a metric to determine how much ...
Objective Because physician burnout negatively affects patients, organisations and those impacted, we aimed to identify and ...
Background Pharmacists’ completion of medication reconciliation in the community after hospital discharge is intended to reduce harm due to prescribed or omitted medication and increase healthcare ...
3 Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA 4 Department of Economics and Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA Correspondence to: Dr V ...
Safety in healthcare is a constantly moving target. As standards improve and concern for safety grows, we come to regard an increasing number of events as patient safety issues. In this respect, ...
1 Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety & Quality, Baltimore, Maryland, USA 2 Department of ...
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