Surgical site infections (SSIs), particularly intra-abdominal (IAB) infections, are challenging to identify and remain a ...

Background Out-of-hours primary care (OOH-PC) services are complex clinical environments where suboptimal care may occur.

Quality improvement (QI) projects often employ statistical process control (SPC) charts to monitor process or outcome measures as part of ongoing feedback, to inform successive Plan-Do-Study-Act ...

Safety in healthcare is a constantly moving target. As standards improve and concern for safety grows, we come to regard an increasing number of events as patient safety issues. In this respect, ...

3 Centre for Environmental and Preventive Medicine, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK 4 ...

Social Science Applied to Healthcare Improvement Research Group, Department of Health Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK Correspondence to Professor Mary Dixon-Woods, ...

1 Yale School of Public Health, Division of Health Policy and Administration, and Global Health Leadership Institute, New Haven, Connecticut, USA 2 Yale School of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, New ...

5 Director of the Centre for Research in Evidence-based Practice, Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Bond University, Headington, UK Correspondence to Professor Mary Dixon-Woods, Department of ...

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 Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 2 Center for Surgery and Public Health, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, ...

Correspondence to Dr Edward Etchells, Department of Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Centre for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S, Canada; ...

1 White River Junction VA, Community and Family Medicine, and Medicine, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, White River Junction, Vermont, USA 2 University of Toronto, Centre for Quality ...