3 National Institute for Health Research Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (NIHR CLAHRC) Wessex, Southampton, UK Objective To determine the association between daily ...

1 Department of Medicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, USA 2 Department of Public Health, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, USA 3 Department of ...

Efforts to ensure effective participation of patients in healthcare are called by many names—patient centredness, patient engagement, patient experience. Improvement initiatives in this domain often ...

Background Double checking medication administration in hospitals is often standard practice, particularly for high-risk drugs, yet its effectiveness in reducing medication administration errors (MAEs ...

Background While the incidence of hospital adverse events appeared to be declining before 2019, the COVID-19 pandemic may ...

Background: Healthcare providers work increasingly under a variety of shift work systems to cover the continuous care required by patients. However, the effects of shift work on patient and provider ...

Correspondence to Julia Paxino, The University of Melbourne Department of Medical Education, Melbourne, VIC 3052, Australia; j.paxino{at}unimelb.edu.au Introduction Clinical debriefing (CD) improves ...

Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics (LIME), Medical Management Centre (MMC), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden Correspondence to Susanne Ullström, Department of Learning, ...

Introduction Duplicate medical records occur when a single patient is assigned multiple medical record numbers within an ...

Correspondence to Dr S Ryan Greysen, Division of Hospital Medicine, UCSF, 533 Parnassus Ave, UC Hall, Suite 127A, San Francisco, California 94143, USA; ryan.greysen{at}ucsf.edu Importance Patient ...

In 2005, draft guidelines were published for reporting studies of quality improvement interventions as the initial step in a consensus process for development of a more definitive version. This ...

Correspondence to Dr Edward Etchells, Department of Medicine, 76 Grenville St, Women's College Hospital, Toronto, ON M5S 1B2, Canada; edward.etchells{at}wchospital.ca For instance, suppose you are ...