This May, the World Health Assembly (WHA) will vote on re-establishing a mandate for the WHO to address the health ...

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 ...

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

Introduction Monitoring hospital mortality rates is widely recommended. However, the number of preventable deaths remains uncertain with estimates in England ranging from 840 to 40 000 per year, these ...

Correspondence to Peter F Kemper, Department of Public and Occupational Health, EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Center, Van de Boechorststraat 7, Amsterdam 1081 BT, ...

The continued use of low-value cancer screening practices not only represents healthcare waste but also a potential cascade of invasive diagnostic procedures and patient anxiety and distress. While ...

‘We need bold, fundamental change that gets at the roots of the burnout crisis.’- US Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy, MD, MBA. The key is understanding what is suboptimal. Their main findings from 124 ...

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Objectives Many hospitals use fall prevention alarms, despite the limited evidence of effectiveness. The objectives of this study were (1) to identify, conceptualise and select strategies to ...

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Background Drug–drug interaction (DDI) alerts target the co-prescription of two potentially interacting medications and are a frequent feature of electronic medical records (EMRs). There have been few ...