Methods We triangulated pre-implementation interview, observational and focus group data to understand the clinical context, ...

Background Enhancing competency in patient safety at entry to practice requires introduction and integration of patient safety into health professional education. As efforts to include patient safety ...

Correspondence to Atle Fretheim, Global Health Unit, Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services, P.O. Box 7004, St. Olavs, Oslo 0130, Norway; atle.fretheim{at}nokc.no Time series plots are ...

The Harvard Medical Practice Study (HMPS) 1, 2 was not the first study to examine adverse events in healthcare organizations, but it established the standard by which adverse events are measured and ...

The traditional separation of the producers of research evidence in academia from the users of that evidence in healthcare organisations has not succeeded in closing the gap between what is known ...

Progress toward improving patient safety has been slow despite engagement of the health care community in improvement efforts. A potential reason for this sluggish pace is the inadequate integration ...

Correspondence to Dr Almut G Winterstein, Department of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy, University of Florida College of Pharmacy, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA; almut{at}ufl.edu Background In 2012, ...

Objective To explore implementation of the modified early obstetric warning system (MEOWS) in practice to further understanding about the influence of contextual factors. Methods An ethnographic study ...

1 Deputy Director, Department of Paediatric Anaesthesia and Pain Management, Royal Children’s Hospital, Parkville, Victoria, Australia 2 Professor, Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, ...

Correspondence to Dr Sumant R Ranji, Division of Hospital Medicine, Department of Medicine, UCSF, 533 Parnassus Avenue, Box 0131, San Francisco, CA 94143-0131, USA; sumantr{at}medicine.ucsf.edu ...

1 Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toranto, Ontario, Canada 2 Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, University of Leicester, ...

Correspondence to Dr Milisa Manojlovich, School of Nursing, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; mmanojlo{at}umich.edu Background How quickly physicians respond to communications from ...