Background Ethnic minorities and some other patient groups consistently report lower scores on patient surveys, but the reasons for this are unclear. This study examined whether low scores of ethnic ...
Objectives Uncertainties exist about when and how best to adjust performance measures for case mix. Our aims are to quantify the impact of case-mix adjustment on practice-level scores in a national ...
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 ...
Department of Health Services Research & Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK Correspondence to Dr Nick Black, Department of Health Services Research & Policy, London ...
Department of Pharmacy, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands M A Boermeester, Department of Surgery (G4-109.2), Academic Medical Center, Meibergdreef 9, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, ...
Correspondence to Dr Jocelyn A Srigley, Department of Medicine, McMaster University, 711 Concession Street, M1-Room 8, Hamilton, ON, Canada, L8V 1C3; srigley{at}hhsc.ca Background The Hawthorne effect ...
3 Nursing Research Institute, St. Vincent's & Mater Health Sydney and Australian Catholic University, Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Australia 4 Faculty of Pharmacy, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia ...
Box 1 IOM recommendations Establish a national focus on patient safety by creating a centre for patient safety within the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Identify and learn from errors by ...
Choosing Wisely (CW) campaigns globally have focused attention on the need to reduce low-value care, which can represent up to 30% of the costs of healthcare. Despite early enthusiasm for the CW ...
The role of quality and safety professionals and leaders in realising the potential and managing the risks of artificial intelligence (AI) tools has not been well defined. We suggest these leaders ...
Background There is a poorly understood relationship between Leadership WalkRounds (WR) and domains such as safety culture, employee engagement, burnout and work-life balance. Methods This ...
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 ...
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