Context Health consumer escalation of acute deterioration response systems are now widely available to help facilitate early recognition and response to acute deterioration in hospitals. Yet, a ...
Background Healthcare patient safety investigations inappropriately focus on individual culpability and the target of ...
Background The 2-week wait referral pathway for suspected colorectal cancer was introduced in England to improve time from referral from a general practitioner (GP) to diagnosis and treatment.
2 Department of Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA 3 Department of Surgery, Olive View-UCLA Medical Center, Sylmar, California, USA Correspondence to Dr ...
1 Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA 2 Division of Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA 3 Department ...
Introduction Barcode medication administration (BCMA) can, if poorly implemented, cause disrupted workflow, increased workload and cause medication errors. Further exploration is needed of the causes ...
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 ...
Objective To understand how lean thinking has been put into practice in healthcare and how it has worked. Design A realist literature review. Data sources The authors systematically searched for ...
Institute for Healthcare Improvement, 375 Longwood Avenue, 4th Floor, Boston, MA 02215, USA Correspondence to: D M Berwick Institute for Healthcare Improvement, 375 Longwood Avenue, 4th Floor, Boston, ...
Centre for Health Informatics & Multiprofessional Education, Royal Free & University College Medical School, University College London, London, UK Correspondence to: G Robert Centre for Health ...
In a companion paper, we proposed that cognitive debiasing is a skill essential in developing sound clinical reasoning to mitigate the incidence of diagnostic failure. We reviewed the origins of ...
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