Correspondence to Miss Michelle Halligan, The University of Western Ontario, Health and Rehabilitation Sciences Graduate Program, Elborn College, 1201 Western Road, London, ON, Canada, N6G 1H1; ...

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 Department of Medicine, The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA 2 The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, The Geisel School of Medicine at ...

Background Extensive research has been conducted into the effects of feedback interventions within many areas of healthcare, but prehospital emergency care has been relatively neglected. Exploratory ...

Much attention has been paid to the inappropriate underuse of tests and treatments but until recently little attention has focused on the overuse that does not add value for patients and may even ...

The concept of knowledge co-production is used in health services research to describe partnerships (which can involve researchers, practitioners, managers, commissioners or service users) with the ...

Machine learning (ML) solutions are increasingly entering healthcare. They are complex, sociotechnical systems that include data inputs, ML models, technical infrastructure and human interactions.

Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Quality and Safety Research Group, Baltimore, MD, USA In the process of acquiring new skills, physicians-in-training may expose patients to harm because ...

Background Data regarding vascular access device use and outcomes are limited. In part, this gap reflects the absence of guidance on what variables should be collected to assess patient outcomes. We ...

Correspondence to Dr Jason N Batten, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-6104, USA; jbatten{at}stanford.edu Background US hospitals typically provide a set of code status ...

3 Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada 4 Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 5 Department ...

4 School of Biomedical Informatics, University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, Houson, Texas, USA 5 National Center for Cognitive Informatics and Decision Making in Healthcare, University ...