Reducing harm in hospital care using Human Factors and Quality Improvement approaches has proved harder than expected: better ...
1 Department of Health Sciences, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK 2 NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK Correspondence to: Dr S Gilbody Senior Lecturer ...
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Introduction Deprescribing (medication dose reduction or cessation) is an integral component of appropriate prescribing. The extent to which deprescribing recommendations are included in clinical ...
Background Hospital-onset bacteraemia and fungaemia (HOB) is being explored as a surveillance and quality metric. The objectives of the current study were to determine sources and preventability of ...
Correspondence to Dr Odette Wegwarth, Heisenberg Chair for Medical Risk Literacy & Evidence-Based Decisions, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin Campus Charite Mitte, Berlin, 10117, Germany; ...
Dr K Walshe, senior research fellow, Health Services Management Centre, University of Birmingham, Park House, 40 Edgbaston Park Road, Birmingham B15 2RT, UK Adverse events—“instances which indicate or ...
Correspondence to Dr Cecilia Vindrola-Padros, Department of Applied Health Research, University College London, 1-19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 7HB, UK; c.vindrola{at}ucl.ac.uk The use of embedded ...
Background There is growing international interest in involving patients in interventions to promote and support them in securing their own safety. This paper reports a systematic review of ...
1 Institute and Outpatient Clinic for Occupational, Social, and Environmental Medicine, Munich University, Munich, Germany 2 Institute for Occupational and Social Medicine, University of Düsseldorf, ...
Objective There is a growing focus on quality and safety in healthcare. Outcome indicators are increasingly used to compare hospital performance and to rank hospitals, but the reliability of ranking ...