Surgical site infections (SSIs), particularly intra-abdominal (IAB) infections, are challenging to identify and remain a ...
Background Out-of-hours primary care (OOH-PC) services are complex clinical environments where suboptimal care may occur.
Safety in healthcare is a constantly moving target. As standards improve and concern for safety grows, we come to regard an increasing number of events as patient safety issues. In this respect, ...
Correspondence to Dr Sumant R Ranji, Division of Hospital Medicine, Department of Medicine, UCSF, 533 Parnassus Avenue, Box 0131, San Francisco, CA 94143-0131, USA; sumantr{at}medicine.ucsf.edu ...
Objectives To systematically review the peer-reviewed literature on interruptions in healthcare settings to determine the state of the science and to identify the gaps in research. Methods Inclusion ...
1 Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA 2 Division of General Internal Medicine, Kyoto University Hospital, Kyoto, Japan 3 Harvard ...
1 Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA 2 Division of Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA 3 Department ...
The year was 1987, and a bold experiment was under way—the US-based National Demonstration Project in Quality Improvement in Health Care (NDP). This effort brought together 21 companies recognised for ...
Objectives: To assess current attitudes towards the national patient survey programme in England, establish the extent to which survey results are used and identify barriers and incentives for using ...
Evaluating the effects of increasing nursing numbers on quality of newborn care in understaffed neonatal units in Kenya: a prospective intervention study ...
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Case School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA Correspondence to: Professor D Neuhauser Department of Epidemiology and ...
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, ...
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