Correspondence to Dr Anna Rahman, Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA; rahmananna1{at}gmail.com Background Two strategies for rating the ...

Background Patients can have an important role in reducing harm in primary-care settings. Learning from patient experience and feedback could improve patient safety. Evidence that captures patients’ ...

Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Associates in Process Improvement, Austin, Texas, USA Correspondence to Lloyd P Provost, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Associates in Process Improvement, ...

1 Department of Pediatrics, Perinatal Institute, James M. Anderson Centre for Health Systems Excellence, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA 2 Associates in Process ...

Professor of Epidemology and Public Health, School of Health Sciences, Neweastle University, The Medical School, Neweastle upon Tyne NE2 4HH, UK Discussing the merits or otherwise of peer review in ...

Correspondence to Dr Hugh McLeod, Health Economics Unit, University of Birmingham, Public Health Building, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK; h.s.t.mcleod{at}bham.ac.uk Objectives In line with a national policy ...

Introduction Older people in care homes are at increased risk of medication errors and adverse drug events. The effect of formulation on administration errors is not known, that is whether the ...

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1 Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA 2 Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA 3 Department of Surgery, Johns ...

Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA Dr H E Wang, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, 230 McKee Place, Suite 400, Pittsburgh, PA ...

1 Professor of General Practice, National Primary Care Research and Development Centre, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK 2 Professor of Social Policy, School of Social Sciences and National ...

The potential of purchasers to influence the quality and safety of care has captured the attention of health sector leaders worldwide. Quality based purchasing explicitly seeks to hold providers ...