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 ...

Background In situ simulation (ISS) has seen broad use in academic emergency medicine (EM). Studies with limited clinical ...

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 ...

Importance Quality improvement efforts on general medical wards are often driven by organisational or clinician priorities, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Introduction: Care home residents are at particular risk from medication errors, and our objective was to determine the prevalence and potential harm of prescribing, monitoring, dispensing and ...