Quality improvement (QI) methods have been introduced to healthcare to support the delivery of care that is safe, timely, effective, efficient, equitable and cost effective. Of the many QI tools …

BMJ Quality & Safety (previously Quality & Safety in Health Care) is an international peer review publication providing research, opinions, debates and reviews for academics, clinicians and …

Methods Five databases (PubMed, Embase, CINAHL, Ovid@Journals, OpenGrey) were searched for studies evaluating the use and effectiveness of double checking on reducing …

2001年6月1日 · Teams make up the building blocks of health care and every team—from the executive to the coal face—is composed of different professionals, ideally possessing a variety …

2024年12月28日 · Background Adverse event surveillance approaches underestimate the prevalence of harmful diagnostic errors (DEs) related to hospital care. Methods We conducted …

Diagnostic errors are associated with patient harm and suboptimal outcomes. Despite national scientific efforts to advance definition, measurement and interventions for diagnostic error, …

A slow but significant change has occurred in how healthcare professionals and organisations are expected to respond when something has gone wrong in a patient’s care.1 In 2001, the US …

Box 1 NAIC scale with specific exemplars used as anchors by CRICO in coding malpractice claim severity. NAIC 6—permanent significant (eg, deafness, loss of single limb, loss of eye, loss of …

2024年12月9日 · Background Self-management support (SMS) is a recommended component of cancer survivorship care that improves health-related quality of life and reduces healthcare …

BMJ Quality & Safety (formerly Quality & Safety in Health Care) is a leading international peer review journal in this growing area of quality and safety improvement.It provides essential …