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

Institute and Outpatient Clinic for Occupational, Social, and Environmental Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany Correspondence to Matthias Weigl, Institute and Outpatient ...

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 Professor Jeffrey Braithwaite, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia; jeffrey.braithwaite{at}mq.edu.au Background Bronchiolitis ...

Background Safety-netting is intended to protect against harm from uncertainty in diagnosis/disease trajectory. Despite recommendations to communicate diagnostic uncertainty when safety-netting, this ...

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

Department of General Practice and Primary Care, School of Medicine, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Correspondence to: Dr S A Buetow, Department of General Practice and Primary Care, ...

Background The number of quality indicators for which clinicians need to record data is increasing. For many indicators, there are concerns about their efficacy. This study aimed to determine whether ...

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Correspondence to Miss A L Grove, WMG, The University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK; amy.grove{at}warwick.ac.uk Background This paper presents the findings of a 13-month lean implementation in ...

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 ...