1 Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, and Hertzberg Palliative Care Institute, Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Adult Development, Mount Sinai School of ...

1 VA Ann Arbor National Serious Mental Illness Treatment Research and Evaluation Center, VA Ann Arbor HSR&D Center of Excellence, and Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan School of ...

Avedis Donabedian Institute, Autonomous University of Barcelona, and CIBER Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain Background: There is growing recognition of patients’ ...

Aim To examine the role of workflow redesign to improve medication reconciliation at four Washington State community hospital emergency departments. Method Lean redesign methodology was used for ...

Background There is a poorly understood relationship between Leadership WalkRounds (WR) and domains such as safety culture, employee engagement, burnout and work-life balance. Methods This ...

Background High-quality antenatal care is important for ensuring optimal birth outcomes and reducing risks of maternal and fetal mortality and morbidity. The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the usual ...

Background Patient involvement in patient safety is widely advocated but knowledge regarding implementation of the concept in clinical practice is sparse. Objective To investigate existing practices ...

Background The number of blood tests ordered in primary care continues to increase and the timely and appropriate communication of results remains essential. However, the testing and result ...

Background Little is known about factors affecting implementation of patient safety programmes in low and middle-income countries. The goal of our study was to evaluate the implementation of a patient ...

Correspondence to Dr Martin Bardsley, The Health Foundation, 90 Long Acre, London, WC2E 9RA, UK; martin.bardsley{at}health.org.uk Though the past 20 years have seen a series of changes to the ...

The clinical microsystem puts medical error and harm reduction into the broader context of safety and quality of care by providing a framework to assess and evaluate ...

1 Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK 2 Centre for Health Policy, Imperial College London, London, UK Correspondence to Dr Felix Greaves, Department of ...