Objective Quality improvement (QI) practices and scholarship are increasingly concerned with environmental sustainability ...

The continued use of low-value cancer screening practices not only represents healthcare waste but also a potential cascade of invasive diagnostic procedures and patient anxiety and distress. While ...

‘We need bold, fundamental change that gets at the roots of the burnout crisis.’- US Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy, MD, MBA. The key is understanding what is suboptimal. Their main findings from 124 ...

3 University Düsseldorf, Medical Faculty, Institute for Occupational Medicine and Social Medicine, Düsseldorf, Germany Correspondence to Dr Matthias Weigl, Institute and Outpatient Clinic for ...

1 NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Patient Safety, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia 2 The Alfred Hospital, National Trauma Research Institute, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia ...

The objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of quality improvement (QI) and patient safety initiatives and data disaggregation on racial disparities in severe maternal morbidity from ...

Background Healthcare leaders look to high-reliability organisations (HROs) for strategies to improve safety, despite questions about how to translate these strategies into practice. Weick and ...

Correspondence to Professor David Reeves, NIHR School for Primary Care Research, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, The University of Manchester Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, ...

This example provides a summary of a real case that occurred in a hospital and the failure to learn from the incident in spite of a root cause analysis. In a large acute hospital, a patient underwent ...

1 Centre for Medicines Safety and Service Quality, Pharmacy Department, Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust, The School of Pharmacy, University of London, London, UK 2 Department of Pharmacy, Kingston ...

1 Senior Staff Specialist, Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Royal Adelaide Hospital and University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia 2 Consultant Anaesthetist, St John of ...

Correspondence to Dr Parastou Donyai, Reading School of Pharmacy, University of Reading, PO Box 226, Whiteknights, Reading RG6 6AP, UK; p.donyai{at}reading.ac.uk Background Pharmacy aseptic units ...