Background Natural hazards, such as earthquakes, pose a significant risk to both the public and healthcare professionals, jeopardising patient safety due to the disruption of healthcare systems and ...

Healthcare is at a crossroads. On one hand, health systems are increasingly committed to promote evidence-based practices and reduce wasteful spending. On the other hand, there is a persistent reality ...

At least one error at any stage 73.4 (54.4 to 89.7) No error made at any stage 26.6 (10.3 to 45.6) With error-checking at each stage At least one error at any stage ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

1 Department of Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH, USA 2 Departments of Pediatrics and of Internal Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH, USA 3 Veterans ...

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 ...

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 ...

1 Centre for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Too often, however, improvement teams go through the motions of PDSA cycles without really ...

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 ...