At least one error at any stage 73.4 (54.4 to 89.7) No error made at any stage 26.6 (10.3 to 45.6) With error-checking at each stage At least one error at any stage ...

Background Natural hazards, such as earthquakes, pose a significant risk to both the public and healthcare professionals, jeopardising patient safety due to the disruption of healthcare systems and ...

1 Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA 2 Center for Quality and Productivity Improvement, College of ...

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1 Department of Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH, USA 2 Departments of Pediatrics and of Internal Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH, USA 3 Veterans ...

3 Health Services Research Unit, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK Correspondence to: Professor M Eccles, Professor of Clinical Effectiveness, Centre for Health Services Research, 21 Claremont ...

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has quietly become a global health crisis, claiming 1.1 million lives annually as of 2021. If left unchecked, the death toll is forecasted to climb to 1.9 million per ...

1 Section of General Internal Medicine, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 2 Section of General Internal Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 3 Boston ...

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Background Quality improvement collaboratives (QIC) have proliferated internationally, but there is little empirical evidence for their effectiveness. Method We searched Medline, Embase, CINAHL, ...

Healthcare institutions continue to face challenges in providing safe patient care in increasingly complex organisational and regulatory environments while striving to maintain financial viability.

Some hospital trusts and health authorities consistently outperform others on different dimensions of performance. Why? There is some evidence that “management matters”, as well as the combined ...