Background Those working in healthcare today are challenged more than ever before to quickly and efficiently learn from data to improve their services and delivery of care. There is broad agreement ...

The opening keynote session of the 16th Annual National Patient Safety Foundation Patient Safety Congress, held 14–16 May 2014, featured a debate addressing the merits and challenges of accountability ...

Correspondence to Dr. Paul Batalden, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, NH 03766, USA; paul.batalden{at}gmail.com If ...

Correspondence to Dr Timothy C Guetterman, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA; tguetter{at}med.umich.edu Telehealth implementation presents numerous unaddressed research questions.

1 Center for Healthcare Studies, Institute for Public Health and Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA 2 Northwestern University Transplant Outcomes ...

There is a professional and legal consensus about the clinical duty to obtain informed consent from patients before treating them. This duty is a reflection of wider cultural values about the moral ...

Department of Anesthesiology and the Duke University Human Simulation and Patient Safety Center, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA Correspondence to: Melanie C Wright PhD ...

1 Clinic of Internal Medicine I, H:S Bispebjerg Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark 2 Unit of Clinical Pharmacology H:S Bispebjerg Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark 3 Department of Clinical Pharmacology Q7642, ...

3 Division of General Internal Medicine and Patient Safety Service, Sunnybrook & Women’s College Health Sciences Centre and Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ...