Background While the incidence of hospital adverse events appeared to be declining before 2019, the COVID-19 pandemic may ...

1 Houston Veterans Affairs Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety, Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center and the Section of Health Services Research, Department of ...

This example provides a summary of a real case that occurred in a hospital and the failure to learn from the incident in spite of a root cause analysis. In a large acute hospital, a patient underwent ...

Objective—To review the literature on the benefits and disadvantages of clinical and medical audit, and to assess the main facilitators and barriers to conducting the audit process. Design—A ...

Correspondence to Dr Marshall H Chin, Section of General Internal Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA; mchin{at}medicine.bsd.uchicago.edu In this editorial, I summarise the ...

2 Professor of General Practice, Department of General Practice, University of Antwerp, Universiteitsplein 1, 2610 Antwerp, Belgium 3 Professor of Quality in Health Care, Clinical Governance Research ...

Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics (LIME), Medical Management Centre (MMC), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden Correspondence to Susanne Ullström, Department of Learning, ...

Background Discrepant attitudes about teamwork among nurses and physicians exist in operating rooms and intensive care units. Little is known about teamwork attitudes on general medical services.

Introduction Improving the quality of self-management support (SMS) for treatment-related toxicities is a priority in cancer care. Successful implementation of SMS programmes depends on tailoring ...

1 Department of Health Management and Policy, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA 2 CS Mott Children's Hospital, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Nursing, University ...

Centre for Quality of Care Research, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands M Ouwens, Centre for Quality of Care Research (KWAZO 117), Radboud University Nijmegen ...

In 2005, draft guidelines were published for reporting studies of quality improvement interventions as the initial step in a consensus process for development of a more definitive version. This ...