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 ...
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 ...
Objectives To synthesise qualitative studies that investigated the experiences of healthcare professionals with using information from patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) to improve the quality ...
Variability and persistent gaps in reporting have been consistently observed across studies evaluating adverse events in healthcare, dating back to the early days of the patient safety movement.
Evaluating the effects of increasing nursing numbers on quality of newborn care in understaffed neonatal units in Kenya: a prospective intervention study ...
Background Reducing hospitalisations in heart failure (HF) requires organisational models for rapid optimisation, education and structured follow-up. Evidence on complex programmes in outermost or ...
Department of Patient Safety, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Dr M A Boermeester, Department of Surgery, Academic Medical Center, Meibergdreef 9, G4-132.1, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, The ...
The number of complaints received by healthcare organisations from patients and families is on an upward trajectory.1 For example, in 2023–2024, the NHS in England received 241 922 complaints,2 an ...
Background The organisation of junior doctors' work hours has been radically altered following the partial implementation of the European Working Time Directive. Poorly designed shift schedules cause ...
Background Literature depicts differences in ethical decision-making (EDM) between countries and intensive care units (ICU). Objectives To better conceptualise EDM climate in the ICU and to validate a ...
Background The association of nursing staffing with patient outcomes has primarily been studied by comparing high to low staffed hospitals, raising concern other factors may account for observed ...
Correspondence to Professor David Reeves, NIHR School for Primary Care Research, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, The University of Manchester Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, ...
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