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 Patient safety and systems integration (PSSI) simulations help uncover hazards that jeopardise patient safety. Using direct observation, video analysis and systems-focused debriefing, they ...
Background In situ simulation (ISS) has seen broad use in academic emergency medicine (EM). Studies with limited clinical data suggest a dual paradigm model to assess the efficacy of these educational ...
Importance Quality improvement efforts on general medical wards are often driven by organisational or clinician priorities, and little is known about patient or caregiver priorities. Objective To ...
Background Clinical encounters with patients who display challenging behaviours (eg, rude, demanding) are increasingly common in emergency departments and can heighten negative emotions, compromise ...
Healthcare organisations invest substantial effort in redesigning systems, implementing new technologies and improving quality and safety processes. Comparatively less attention is paid to how ...
2 Professor of General Practice, Department of General Practice, University of Antwerp, Universiteitsplein 1, 2610 Antwerp, Belgium 3 Professor of Quality in Health Care, Clinical Governance Research ...
Efforts to ensure effective participation of patients in healthcare are called by many names—patient centredness, patient engagement, patient experience. Improvement initiatives in this domain often ...
Royal College of Nursing Institute, Royal College of Nursing, London, UK. The argument put forward in this paper is that successful implementation of research into practice is a function of the ...
Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) were originally introduced to primary care as screening instruments to assist primary care practitioners to diagnose and manage depression, on the assumption that ...
1 University of Technology Sydney, Centre for Health Communication, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 2 HSPIB, NSW Ministry of Health, North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 3 Emergency Department, ...
University of Missouri Health System, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri, USA Correspondence to S D Scott, Office of Clinical Effectiveness, University of Missouri Health System, One ...
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