Background Voluntary assisted dying (VAD) in Victoria, Australia, is governed by a stringent legislative framework, designed ...

Background Healthcare patient safety investigations inappropriately focus on individual culpability and the target of recommendations is often on the behaviours of individuals, rather than addressing ...

Background Patient complaints are associated with adverse events and malpractice claims but underused in patient safety improvement. Objective To systematically evaluate the use of patient complaint ...

Introduction: The frequency of adverse events in the operating theatre has been linked to the quality of teamwork and communication. Developing suitable measures of teamwork may play a role in ...

Background Problems of quality and safety persist in health systems worldwide. We conducted a large research programme to examine culture and behaviour in the English National Health Service (NHS).

Background Order sets are widely used tools in the electronic health record (EHR) for improving healthcare quality. However, there is limited insight into how well they facilitate clinician workflow.

Correspondence to Dr Matthew B Weinger, Anesthesiology/CRISS, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37212, USA; matt.weinger{at}vumc.org Despite numerous studies, gaps in the evidence to ...

Correspondence to: Dr Johan Thor Medical Management Centre, Berzelius väg 3, 5th floor, Karolinska Institutet, S-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden; johan.thor{at}ki.se Objective: To systematically review the ...

Correspondence to Dr Padageshwar R Sunkara, Department of Internal Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston Salem, North Carolina, USA; padageshwar{at}gmail.com Background Effective ...

External groups requiring measures now include public and private payers, regulators, accreditors and others that certify performance levels for consumers, patients and payers. Although benefits have ...

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, ...

Correspondence to Dr Kun-Hsing Yu, Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Kun-Hsing_Yu{at}hms.harvard.edu; Professor Isaac S Kohane, Biomedical Informatics, Harvard ...