Correspondence to Dr Karen B Born, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5T3M6, Canada; karen.born{at}utoronto.ca There are growing calls for ...

1 Institute and Outpatient Clinic for Occupational, Social, and Environmental Medicine, Munich University, Munich, Germany 2 Institute for Occupational and Social Medicine, University of Düsseldorf, ...

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

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

2 Carl J. Shapiro Institute for Education and Research at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 3 Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, ...

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, ...