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BMJ Quality & Safety invites submissions to a topic collection on Patient Safety in Maternal and Child Health. Submissions must convey information that will help a wide range of international readers ...

Department of Neonatology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Correspondence to Dr Dara Brodsky, Department of Neonatology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Rose 3, ...

Correspondence to Dr Natalia Khalaf; natalia.khalaf@bcm.edu ...

Although healthcare quality and patient safety have longstanding international attention, the target of reducing diagnostic errors has only recently gained prominence, even though numerous patients, ...

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 ...

Objectives The aim of this article is to provide an estimate of the proportion of the general public reporting healthcare-related harm in Great Britain, its location, impact, responses post-harm and ...

Correspondence to Miss Michelle Halligan, The University of Western Ontario, Health and Rehabilitation Sciences Graduate Program, Elborn College, 1201 Western Road, London, ON, Canada, N6G 1H1; ...

Ten years ago, the Institute of Medicine reported alarming data on the scope and impact of medical errors in the US and called for national efforts to address this problem. While efforts to improve ...

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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 ...

Introduction Monitoring hospital mortality rates is widely recommended. However, the number of preventable deaths remains uncertain with estimates in England ranging from 840 to 40 000 per year, these ...