Background Healthcare-associated infections due to multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) remain a high priority patient ...

Background Healthcare staff adapt to challenges faced when delivering healthcare by using workarounds. Sometimes, safety ...

The clinical microsystem puts medical error and harm reduction into the broader context of safety and quality of care by providing a framework to assess and evaluate ...

Correspondence to Dr Lianne Jeffs, St. Michael's Hospital, Room 720 Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, 30 Bond Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5B 1W8; jeffsl{at}smh.ca Introduction Performance data ...

Social Science Applied to Healthcare Improvement Research Group, Department of Health Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK Correspondence to Professor Mary Dixon-Woods, ...

A wide variety of research studies suggest that breakdowns in the diagnostic process result in a staggering toll of harm and patient deaths. These include autopsy studies, case reviews, surveys of ...

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 ...

Some hospital trusts and health authorities consistently outperform others on different dimensions of performance. Why? There is some evidence that “management matters”, as well as the combined ...

Correspondence to Professor Paul Batalden, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Lebanon, NH 03766, USA; paul.batalden{at}gmail.com Our interactions during the Colloquium ...

Evaluation of improvement initiatives in healthcare is essential to establishing whether interventions are effective and to understanding how and why they work in order to enable replication. Although ...

5 Director of the Centre for Research in Evidence-based Practice, Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Bond University, Headington, UK Correspondence to Professor Mary Dixon-Woods, Department of ...