Background Healthcare patient safety investigations inappropriately focus on individual culpability and the target of ...

At least one error at any stage 73.4 (54.4 to 89.7) No error made at any stage 26.6 (10.3 to 45.6) With error-checking at each stage At least one error at any stage ...

Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA Correspondence to: Associate Professor P J Pronovost Department of Anaesthesiology and ...

The concept of knowledge co-production is used in health services research to describe partnerships (which can involve researchers, practitioners, managers, commissioners or service users) with the ...

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 ...

1 Department of Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH, USA 2 Departments of Pediatrics and of Internal Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH, USA 3 Veterans ...

Improvement (defined broadly as purposive efforts to secure positive change) has become an increasingly important activity and field of inquiry within healthcare. This article offers an overview of ...

Providing clinical care is above all a service; in that sense, the medical profession aspires to Aristotelian phronesis, or prudence—being ‘capable of action with regard to things that are good and ...

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 Section of General Internal Medicine, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 2 Section of General Internal Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 3 Boston ...

Correspondence to Miss Michelle Halligan, The University of Western Ontario, Health and Rehabilitation Sciences Graduate Program, Elborn College, 1201 Western Road, London, ON, Canada, N6G 1H1; ...

3 Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada 4 Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 5 Department ...