Radiological reporting is a central component of clinical decision-making and a patient safety-critical system. Radiology ...
Methods We triangulated pre-implementation interview, observational and focus group data to understand the clinical context, ...
Background Globally, up to 17% of hospitalised people suffer a patient safety incident. Learning from adverse events through patient safety investigation is critical to prevention; however, their ...
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Correspondence to Professor Albert W. Wu, Center for Health Services and Outcomes Research, 624 N. Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA; awu{at}jhsph.edu In the past decade, hospitals and healthcare ...
Correspondence to Dr Alan J Card, Evidence-Based Health Solutions, LLC, PO Box 62, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA; alan.j.card{at}gmail.com ‘The Problem with…’ series covers controversial topics related to ...
Objectives Uncertainties exist about when and how best to adjust performance measures for case mix. Our aims are to quantify the impact of case-mix adjustment on practice-level scores in a national ...
1 Division of General Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass, USA 2 Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Mass, ...
Evaluating the effects of increasing nursing numbers on quality of newborn care in understaffed neonatal units in Kenya: a prospective intervention study ...
5 Melbourne School of Population Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 6 Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Correspondence to Dr ...
1 Center for Leadership and Improvement, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, Hew Hampshire, USA Background Ethics and quality care are ...
The Harvard Medical Practice Study (HMPS) 1, 2 was not the first study to examine adverse events in healthcare organizations, but it established the standard by which adverse events are measured and ...