5 Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 6 Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins ...

Background The use of national quality campaigns to foster evidence-based hospital practices is increasing. Because campaigns typically do not limit access to their resources, they may influence ...

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Objective Diagnostic delay is a pervasive patient safety problem that disproportionately affects historically underserved populations. We aim to systematically examine and synthesise published ...

The evolution of the concepts and processes underpinning the Australian Patient Safety Foundation's systems over the last 15 years are traced. An ideal system should have the following attributes: an ...

Background Little is known about the incidence or significance of diagnostic error in the inpatient setting. We used a malpractice claims database to examine ...

3 Medical Decision Making, J10-S, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands Correspondence to Dr Leti van Bodegom-Vos, Department of Medical Decision Making, Leiden University Medical ...

9 Clinical Pharmacology Unit, University of Edinburgh, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK 10 Centre of Academic Primary Care, Division of Applied Health Sciences, University of Aberdeen, ...

Purpose of study Initiatives to standardise hospital paper-based prescription charts are underway in various countries in an effort to reduce prescribing errors. The ...

Introduction Hip fractures are associated with high rates of morbidity and mortality and their incidence is set to increase. The National Hip Fracture Database and the Best Practice Tariff were ...