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 ...

Introduction Duplicate medical records occur when a single patient is assigned multiple medical record numbers within an instance of an electronic health record, potentially associated with fragmented ...

2 Professor of General Practice, Department of General Practice, University of Antwerp, Universiteitsplein 1, 2610 Antwerp, Belgium 3 Professor of Quality in Health Care, Clinical Governance Research ...

The role and value of theory in improvement work in healthcare has been seriously underrecognised. We join others in proposing that more informed use of theory can strengthen improvement programmes ...

Correspondence to: Dr A N Healey Clinical Safety Research, Imperial College London, Department of Surgical Oncology and Technology, 10th Floor QEQM, St Mary’s Hospital, Praed Street, Paddington, ...

Correspondence to Dr Milagros Ruiz, Dr Foster Unit, PCPH Imperial College London, 3 Dorset Rise, London EC4Y 8EN, UK; m.ruiz{at}imperial.ac.uk Objective To examine the association of mortality by day ...

3 Health Services Research Unit, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK Correspondence to: Professor M Eccles, Professor of Clinical Effectiveness, Centre for Health Services Research, 21 Claremont ...

The physical environment has a significant impact on health and safety; however, hospitals have not been designed with the explicit goal of enhancing patient safety through facility design. In April ...

Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics (LIME), Medical Management Centre (MMC), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden Correspondence to Susanne Ullström, Department of Learning, ...

Introduction Efforts to enact nurse staffing legislation often lack timely, local evidence about how specific policies could directly impact the public’s health. Despite numerous studies indicating ...

2 National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC) for North-West London, London, UK Correspondence to Michael J Taylor, Academic ...