1 Department of General Practice, CAPHRI School of Public Health and Primary Care, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands 2 Department of Medical Decision Making, Leiden University Medical ...

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

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

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 ...

Background Although well-established principles exist for improving the timeliness and efficiency of care, many organisations struggle to achieve more than small-scale, localised gains. Where care ...

Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA Correspondence to: Associate Professor P J Pronovost Department of Anaesthesiology and ...

Background There is growing international interest in involving patients in interventions to promote and support them in securing their own safety. This paper reports a systematic review of ...

Quality of care for secondary cardiovascular disease prevention in 2009–2017: population-wide cohort study of antiplatelet therapy use in Scotland ...

2 Department of Bachelor in Nursing, University College Arteveldehogeschool Ghent, Gent, Belgium Context Previous studies report that pressure ulcer classification and differentiation from ...

Background Bedside rounds (BR) have been proposed as an ideal method to promote patient-centred hospital care, but there is substantial variation in their implementation and effects. Our objectives ...