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 ...

“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 ...

2 Institute for Simulation and Training, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, USA 3 Department of Psychology, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, USA 4 University of Kansas ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Results of a healthcare transition learning collaborative for emerging adults with sickle cell disease: the ST3P-UP study transition quality improvement collaborative ...

Correspondence to Professor Paul Batalden, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Lebanon, NH 03766, USA; paul.batalden{at}gmail.com Our interactions during the Colloquium ...