Background Children represent fewer than 10% of emergency medical services (EMS) encounters in the USA. We evaluated whether ...

Background Double-checking of medication administration is a safety practice used in hospitals around the world. Independence is recommended as the key to effectiveness. Independent double-checking ...

The traditional separation of the producers of research evidence in academia from the users of that evidence in healthcare organisations has not succeeded in closing the gap between what is known ...

Centre for Health Informatics & Multiprofessional Education, Royal Free & University College Medical School, University College London, London, UK Correspondence to: G Robert Centre for Health ...

Objective To examine the impact of nursing team size and composition on inpatient hospital mortality. Design A retrospective longitudinal study using linked nursing staff rostering and patient data.

Centre for Quality of Care Research (WOK), University Medical Centre Nijmegen, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands Dr M E J L Hulscher, Centre for Quality of Care Research (WOK), University Medical ...

1 Betsy Lehman Center for Patient Safety, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 2 Patient Safety and Quality Initiatives, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 3 Harvard Medical School ...

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: Learning from mistakes is key to maintaining and improving the quality of care in the NHS. This study investigates the willingness of healthcare professionals to report the mistakes of ...

3 University Düsseldorf, Medical Faculty, Institute for Occupational Medicine and Social Medicine, Düsseldorf, Germany Correspondence to Dr Matthias Weigl, Institute and Outpatient Clinic for ...

Correspondence to Professor Natalie Armstrong, Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK; na144{at}le.ac.uk If we understand overdiagnosis and overtreatment as a ...

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 ...