Background Healthcare staff adapt to challenges faced when delivering healthcare by using workarounds. Sometimes, safety ...

Background Healthcare-associated infections due to multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) remain a high priority patient ...

The clinical microsystem puts medical error and harm reduction into the broader context of safety and quality of care by providing a framework to assess and evaluate ...

Background Although well-established principles exist for improving the timeliness and efficiency of care, many organisations struggle to achieve more than small-scale, localised gains. Where care ...

Objectives To systematically review the peer-reviewed literature on interruptions in healthcare settings to determine the state of the science and to identify the gaps in research. Methods Inclusion ...

Quality of care for secondary cardiovascular disease prevention in 2009–2017: population-wide cohort study of antiplatelet therapy use in Scotland ...

Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Case School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106-4945, USA Correspondence to: Professor D Neuhauser Department of ...

Correspondence to Professor Jeffrey Braithwaite, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia; jeffrey.braithwaite{at}mq.edu.au Background Bronchiolitis ...

Institute and Outpatient Clinic for Occupational, Social, and Environmental Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany Correspondence to Matthias Weigl, Institute and Outpatient ...

1 Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London WC1 7HT, UK 2 Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London ...