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 ...

Centre for Outcomes Research and Effectiveness, Department of Psychology, University College London, UK Correspondence to: Professor S Michie Centre for Outcomes Research and Effectiveness, University ...

Background Informed consent for medical interventions is ethically and legally required; an important aspect of quality and safety in healthcare; and essential to person-centred care. During labour ...

This paper defines risk and its component elements and describes where clinical practice may be starting from in terms of what is reported in the literature about understanding risks and the ...

Safety in the clinical environment is based on structures that reduce the probability of harm, on evidence that enhances the likelihood of actions that increase favourable outcomes, and on explicit ...

There is wide belief that organisational culture shapes many aspects of performance, including safety. Yet proof of this relationship in a medical context is hard to find. In contrast to human factors ...

1 Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA 2 Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA 8 Pediatric Critical Care, ...

Background Patients are a valuable source of information about ways to prevent harm in primary care and are in a unique position to provide feedback about the factors that contribute to safety ...

2 Johns Hopkins Medicine Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, Baltimore, Maryland, USA Correspondence to Dr Jill A Marsteller, Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University ...

3 School of Medicine, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand 4 Harvard Medical School, Center for Medical Simulation, Boston, Massachusetts, United States 5 Harvard Medical School, Brigham and ...

1 Centre for Primary Health Care Studies, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK 2 Department of General Practice & Primary Care, Guy’s, King’s and St Thomas’ School of Medicine, ...

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