Background In situ simulation (ISS) has seen broad use in academic emergency medicine (EM). Studies with limited clinical ...
Background Low-value practices, defined as tests or treatments that are used in practice despite not being supported by evidence, account for 20%–30% of healthcare expenditure; moreover, some ...
Importance Quality improvement efforts on general medical wards are often driven by organisational or clinician priorities, ...
Importance Patient safety and systems integration (PSSI) simulations help uncover hazards that jeopardise patient safety. Using direct observation, video analysis and systems-focused debriefing, they ...
De-implementation of low-value clinical practices requires changes in both documentation and clinician behaviour, yet ...
The WHO Surgical Safety Checklist (SSC) has been a cornerstone of surgical safety for nearly 20 years—endorsed as a required or recommended standard and adopted by hospitals worldwide.1 However, ...
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3 Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA 4 Department of Economics and Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA Correspondence to: Dr V ...
Evaluating the effects of increasing nursing numbers on quality of newborn care in understaffed neonatal units in Kenya: a prospective intervention study ...
Research questions The paper explores which type of quality aspects (structure, process, outcome) most strongly determines patients' overall assessment of healthcare, and whether there is a variation ...
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1 Centre for Medicines Safety and Service Quality, Pharmacy Department, Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust, The School of Pharmacy, University of London, London, UK 2 Department of Pharmacy, Kingston ...