1 Health Informatics Research & Evaluation Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia 2 Centre for Health Informatics, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Faculty ...
1 Director of Research, Picker Institute Europe, Oxford and Director of Health Care Outcomes Research, Health Services Research Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK 2 Chief Executive, Picker ...
Correspondence to Dr Fiona A Miller, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; fiona.miller{at}utoronto.ca The COVID-19 pandemic has brought the ...
Ten years ago, the Institute of Medicine reported alarming data on the scope and impact of medical errors in the US and called for national efforts to address this problem. While efforts to improve ...
Correspondence to Dr Scott I Tannenbaum, The Group for Organizational Effectiveness, Albany, New York 10011, USA; Scott.Tannenbaum{at}groupoe.com Healthcare providers are expected to communicate, ...
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 ...
Evaluating the effects of increasing nursing numbers on quality of newborn care in understaffed neonatal units in Kenya: a prospective intervention study ...
Introduction: Care home residents are at particular risk from medication errors, and our objective was to determine the prevalence and potential harm of prescribing, monitoring, dispensing and ...
VA National Quality Scholars Program, Louis Stokes Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Center for Healthcare Research and Policy, MetroHealth Medical Center, Case Western ...
Background To describe the diagnoses of people who present to the emergency department (ED) with low back pain (LBP), the proportion of people with a lumbar spine condition who arrived by ambulance, ...
1 Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA 2 Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA 8 Pediatric Critical Care, ...
Background: Most studies of healthcare complications identify surgery as a major contributor to the overall burden of complicated care that leads to injury or death. Indeed, surgical adverse events ...