Background Natural hazards, such as earthquakes, pose a significant risk to both the public and healthcare professionals, jeopardising patient safety due to the disruption of healthcare systems and ...

Healthcare is at a crossroads. On one hand, health systems are increasingly committed to promote evidence-based practices and reduce wasteful spending. On the other hand, there is a persistent reality ...

At least one error at any stage 73.4 (54.4 to 89.7) No error made at any stage 26.6 (10.3 to 45.6) With error-checking at each stage At least one error at any stage ...

1 Department of Medicine, The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA 2 The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, The Geisel School of Medicine at ...

3 National Institute for Health Research Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (NIHR CLAHRC) Wessex, Southampton, UK Objective To determine the association between daily ...

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Quality and Safety Research Group, Baltimore, MD, USA In the process of acquiring new skills, physicians-in-training may expose patients to harm because ...

Improvement (defined broadly as purposive efforts to secure positive change) has become an increasingly important activity and field of inquiry within healthcare. This article offers an overview of ...

1 Department of Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH, USA 2 Departments of Pediatrics and of Internal Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH, USA 3 Veterans ...

Correspondence to Dr Ann M Borzecki, Center for Healthcare Organization and Implementation Research, Bedford MA 01730, USA; amb{at}bu.edu Despite consensus that preventing patient safety events is ...

1 Centre for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Too often, however, improvement teams go through the motions of PDSA cycles without really ...

2 Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 3 Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Faculty of Medicine, University ...

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 ...