Institute and Outpatient Clinic for Occupational, Social, and Environmental Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany Correspondence to Matthias Weigl, Institute and Outpatient ...

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 ...

1 Centre for Primary Health Care Studies, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK 2 Department of General Practice & Primary Care, Guy’s, King’s and St Thomas’ School of Medicine, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Background: Evidence-based clinical guidelines aim to improve the quality of care. In The Netherlands, considerable time and effort have been invested in the development and implementation of evidence ...

Evaluation of improvement initiatives in healthcare is essential to establishing whether interventions are effective and to understanding how and why they work in order to enable replication. Although ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Social Science Applied to Healthcare Improvement Research Group, Department of Health Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK Correspondence to Professor Mary Dixon-Woods, ...

Objective To understand what patients and family members know about problems and failures in healthcare. Design Qualitative, semistructured open-ended interviews were conducted with 39 patients and 80 ...