Background Intraoperative hypothermia can lead to adverse clinical outcomes and avoidable financial and environmental costs. Environmentally preferable warming practices have been identified, ...
The introduction of artificial intelligence (AI)-driven clinical documentation has taken healthcare by storm. According to many leaders and clinicians, there has never been a technology that has been ...
Sepsis and antimicrobial stewardship programmes coexist in tension, as they can appear to have apparently opposing messages around antimicrobial prescribing. In the era of increasing antimicrobial ...
Introduction Duplicate medical records occur when a single patient is assigned multiple medical record numbers within an ...
Background Diagnostic errors remain a significant challenge in healthcare, with cognitive biases, particularly availability bias, playing a critical role. While previous studies focused on controlled ...
1 Houston Veterans Affairs Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety, Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center and the Section of Health Services Research, Department of ...
Background Patient complaints provide a complementary lens on surgical safety, yet prior analyses have been small and specialty specific. We aimed to characterise themes, perioperative processes, ...
Background Reducing hospitalisations in heart failure (HF) requires organisational models for rapid optimisation, education and structured follow-up. Evidence on complex programmes in outermost or ...
5 Director of the Centre for Research in Evidence-based Practice, Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Bond University, Headington, UK Correspondence to Professor Mary Dixon-Woods, Department of ...
2 Professor of General Practice, Department of General Practice, University of Antwerp, Universiteitsplein 1, 2610 Antwerp, Belgium 3 Professor of Quality in Health Care, Clinical Governance Research ...