qualitysafety.bmj2d
Investigators are human too: outcome bias and perceptions of individual culpability in patient safety incident investigations
Background Healthcare patient safety investigations inappropriately focus on individual culpability and the target of recommendations is often on the behaviours of individuals, rather than addressing ...
qualitysafety.bmj15d
Understanding patient safety during earthquakes: a phenomenological study of disaster response
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 ...
qualitysafety.bmj13d
Choosing ‘Less’ Wisely as a marker of decisional conflict
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 ...
qualitysafety.bmj10d
Table 3
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 ...
qualitysafety.bmj1d
The problem of appraising qualitative research
Qualitative research can make a valuable contribution to the study of quality and safety in health care. Sound ways of appraising qualitative research are needed, but currently there are many ...
qualitysafety.bmj6d
Measuring patient safety climate: a review of surveys
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 ...
qualitysafety.bmj13d
Dual-process cognitive interventions to enhance diagnostic reasoning: a systematic review
Background Diagnostic error incurs enormous human and economic costs. The dual-process model reasoning provides a framework for understanding the diagnostic process ...
qualitysafety.bmj5d
Addressing the challenges of knowledge co-production in quality improvement: learning from the implementation of the researcher-in-residence model
The concept of knowledge co-production is used in health services research to describe partnerships (which can involve researchers, practitioners, managers, commissioners or service users) with the ...
qualitysafety.bmj11d
Systems of service: reflections on the moral foundations of improvement
Providing clinical care is above all a service; in that sense, the medical profession aspires to Aristotelian phronesis, or prudence—being ‘capable of action with regard to things that are good and ...
qualitysafety.bmj12d
What to expect when you're evaluating healthcare improvement: a concordat approach to managing collaboration and uncomfortable realities
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 ...
qualitysafety.bmj5d
How to study improvement interventions: a brief overview of possible study types
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 ...
qualitysafety.bmj8d
Learning from near misses: from quick fixes to closing off the Swiss-cheese holes
3 Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada 4 Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 5 Department ...