Patient safety has become an international priority with major research programmes being carried out in the USA, UK, and elsewhere. The challenge is how to organize research efforts that will produce ...

Improvement (defined broadly as purposive efforts to secure positive change) has become an increasingly important activity and field of inquiry within healthcare. This article offers an overview of ...

1 School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA 2 Division of Hospital Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA 3 ...

Objective—To review the literature on the benefits and disadvantages of clinical and medical audit, and to assess the main facilitators and barriers to conducting the audit process. Design—A ...

1 Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre (ANZIC-RC), Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 2 Intensive Care Unit, ...

1 Dr Foster Unit at Imperial College, Department of Primary Care and Social Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK 2 Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, Chelsea and Westminster ...

Clinical Safety Research Unit, St Mary’s Hospital, London, UK R Davis, Clinical Safety Research Unit, Department of Bio-Surgery and Surgical Technology, 10th Floor, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother ...

Institute of Health Innovation, Centre for Clinical Governance Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Kensington, New South Wales, Australia David Greenfield, Institute of ...

1 Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, School of Health, Community and Education Studies, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Background Healthcare is a series of complex, interwoven ...

3 Division of General Internal Medicine and Patient Safety Service, Sunnybrook & Women’s College Health Sciences Centre and Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ...

Background There is growing international interest in involving patients in interventions to promote and support them in securing their own safety. This paper reports a systematic review of ...

In a companion paper, we proposed that cognitive debiasing is a skill essential in developing sound clinical reasoning to mitigate the incidence of diagnostic failure. We reviewed the origins of ...