Background Countries with resource-poor health systems have struggled to improve access to and the quality of caesarean section (C-section; CS) for women seeking care in public health facilities.

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Introduction The vital role of medical workforce well-being for improving patient experience and population health while assuring safety and reducing costs is recognised internationally. Yet the ...

1 Pharmaceutical Health Services Research Department, University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, Baltimore, Maryland, USA 2 Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland ...

Correspondence to: Dr J Øvretveit, Professor of Health Policy and Management, The Nordic School of Public Health, Goteborg, Box 12133, S-40242 Sweden; jovret{at}aol.com. Quality improvement ...

Correspondence to Dr Stephanie Tierney, University of Warwick Warwick Medical School, Warwick Medical School, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK; stephanie.tierney{at}warwick.ac.uk Nursing, in particular, has been ...

Healthcare managers, clinical researchers and individual patients (and their physicians) manage variation differently to achieve different ends. First, managers are primarily concerned with the ...

“The right quality and uniformity are foundations of commerce, prosperity and peace.” W E Deming (1900–1993) Variation causes waste. How could any one take these apparently simple ideas and turn them ...

Objectives: To assess awareness and use of the current incident reporting system and to identify factors inhibiting reporting of incidents in hospitals. Design, setting and participants: Anonymous ...

Objective There is a growing focus on quality and safety in healthcare. Outcome indicators are increasingly used to compare hospital performance and to rank hospitals, but the reliability of ranking ...

3 Center for Health Services Research, Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, Washington, USA Correspondence to Dr C Craig Blackmore, Center for Health Services Research, Virginia Mason Medical ...