Background Given the emphasis on promoting inclusive policies, we investigated the relationship between US hospitals’ ...

Knowing what you are doing’ is a simple, but elemental value for any (care) professional. Acknowledging that treatments in ...

Background Children represent fewer than 10% of emergency medical services (EMS) encounters in the USA. We evaluated whether agency-level paediatric volume is associated with the quality of ...

Background Wrong-drug medication errors are common. Regulators screen drug names for confusability, but screening methods lack empirical validation. Previous work showed that psycholinguistic tests on ...

Patients, clinicians and managers all want to be reassured that their healthcare organisation is safe. But there is no consensus about what we mean when we ask whether a healthcare organisation is ...

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Comparing safety, performance and user perceptions of a patient-specific indication-based prescribing tool with current practice: a mixed methods randomised user testing study ...

Introduction Patients are increasingly being thought of as central to patient safety. A small but growing body of work suggests that patients may have a role in reporting patient safety problems ...

Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Associates in Process Improvement, Austin, Texas, USA Correspondence to Lloyd P Provost, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Associates in Process Improvement, ...

2 Women's College Hospital Institute for Health Systems Solutions and Virtual Care, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 3 Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University ...