What should we do in order to improve quality and safety in medicines management? How beneficial is it to design the ...

For patients in the intensive care unit (ICU), prolonged mechanical ventilation is associated with poor outcomes. A quality improvement (QI) initiative with the aim of reducing median time on the ...

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Department of General Practice and Primary Care, School of Medicine, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Correspondence to: Dr S A Buetow, Department of General Practice and Primary Care, ...

Objectives To perform a systematic review of the frequency of (preventable) adverse events (AE/PAE) and to analyse contributing factors, such as sample size, settings, type of events, terminology, ...

5 Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA Correspondence to Audrey Lyndon, Department of Family Health Care Nursing, ...

Correspondence to: Mr C M Lowe Head of Design and Human Factors, NHS National Patient Safety Agency, 4–8 Maple Street, London W1T 5HD, UK; colum.lowe{at}npsa.nhs.uk Poor design of elements in a ...

Background Understaffing by nursing staff in hospitals is linked to patients coming to harm and dying unnecessarily. There is a vicious cycle whereby poor work conditions, including understaffing, can ...

The quality of care anyone receives in the USA is highly dependent on where they receive care. Prior research has found that on average, risk-adjusted mortality differences between top-decile and ...

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