Background Healthcare-associated infections due to multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) remain a high priority patient ...

Background Healthcare staff adapt to challenges faced when delivering healthcare by using workarounds. Sometimes, safety ...

Leiden University Medical Centre, Medical Decision Making, J10-S, Leiden, The Netherlands Correspondence to Dr Perla J Marang-van de Mheen, Leiden University Medical Centre, Medical Decision Making, ...

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; ...

Quality of care for secondary cardiovascular disease prevention in 2009–2017: population-wide cohort study of antiplatelet therapy use in Scotland ...

Objectives: To assess awareness and use of the current incident reporting system and to identify factors inhibiting reporting of incidents in hospitals. Design, setting and participants: Anonymous ...

1 Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA 2 Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA 3 Department of ...

The clinical microsystem puts medical error and harm reduction into the broader context of safety and quality of care by providing a framework to assess and evaluate ...

Objectives To systematically review the peer-reviewed literature on interruptions in healthcare settings to determine the state of the science and to identify the gaps in research. Methods Inclusion ...

Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Case School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106-4945, USA Correspondence to: Professor D Neuhauser Department of ...