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 ...
Background Clinical encounters with patients who display challenging behaviours (eg, rude, demanding) are increasingly common ...
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 ...
Advancing knowledge about how to improve the quality and safety of healthcare is a priority of BMJ Quality and Safety, and it is clear that artificial intelligence will play many roles in this respect ...
Importance Quality improvement efforts on general medical wards are often driven by organisational or clinician priorities, ...
Objective To evaluate the effectiveness of clinician-directed default nudges for reducing overuse of tests and treatments. Design A systematic review was conducted to synthesise evidence from ...
Correspondence to Professor Carolyn Tarrant, Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK; ccp3{at}le.ac.uk The paper by Swinglehurst and colleagues in this issue of ...
Background Overuse of diagnostic testing substantially contributes to healthcare expenses and potentially exposes patients to unnecessary harm. Our objective was to systematically identify and examine ...
Correspondence to Dr Eduardo Salas, Department of Psychology, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA; eduardo.salas{at}rice.edu Front-line medical teams are experiencing unprecedented stressors as a ...
Correspondence to Dr Padageshwar R Sunkara, Department of Internal Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston Salem, North Carolina, USA; padageshwar{at}gmail.com Background Effective ...
Introduction Efforts to enact nurse staffing legislation often lack timely, local evidence about how specific policies could directly impact the public’s health. Despite numerous studies indicating ...
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