The Enhancing the Quality and Transparency of Health Research (EQUATOR) Network indexes over 600 reporting guidelines designed to improve the reproducibility of manuscripts across medical fields and ...

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 ...

Background Healthcare patient safety investigations inappropriately focus on individual culpability and the target of recommendations is often on the behaviours of individuals, rather than addressing ...

Objective To understand how lean thinking has been put into practice in healthcare and how it has worked. Design A realist literature review. Data sources The authors systematically searched for ...

2 Department of Practice and Policy, Centre for Medication Safety and Service Quality, UCL School of Pharmacy, London, UK 3 Faculty of Medicine, Centre for Haematology (Honorary Research Associate), ...

Patients, clinicians and managers all want to be reassured that their healthcare organisation is safe. But there is no consensus about what we mean when we ask whether a healthcare organisation is ...

1 Centre of Population Health Sciences: General Practice Section, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK 2 Tayside Centre for General Practice, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK 3 Centre for Rural ...

The role and value of theory in improvement work in healthcare has been seriously underrecognised. We join others in proposing that more informed use of theory can strengthen improvement programmes ...

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Quality and Safety Research Group, Baltimore, MD, USA In the process of acquiring new skills, physicians-in-training may expose patients to harm because ...

Improvement (defined broadly as purposive efforts to secure positive change) has become an increasingly important activity and field of inquiry within healthcare. This article offers an overview of ...

The concept of knowledge co-production is used in health services research to describe partnerships (which can involve researchers, practitioners, managers, commissioners or service users) with the ...