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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 ...
Introduction: Falls in hospital inpatients are common, with reported rates ranging from 3 to 14 per 1000 bed days. They cause physical and psychological harm, are associated with impaired ...
Background To describe the diagnoses of people who present to the emergency department (ED) with low back pain (LBP), the proportion of people with a lumbar spine condition who arrived by ambulance, ...
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 ...
5 Institute of Medical Education Research Rotterdam, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Correspondence to Dr Sílvia Mamede, Institute of Medical Education Research Rotterdam, Erasmus ...
3 Institute of Medical Education Research, Rotterdam, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam Correspondence to Professor Pat Croskerry, Division of Medical Education, Dalhousie University, ...
Although healthcare quality and patient safety have longstanding international attention, the target of reducing diagnostic errors has only recently gained prominence, even though numerous patients, ...
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, ...
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 ...
2 The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Cystic Fibrosis Center, Baltimore, Maryland, USA 3 The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, ...