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Advancing health equity in patient safety: a reckoning, challenge and opportunity

Correspondence to Dr Marshall H Chin, Section of General Internal Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA; mchin{at}medicine.bsd.uchicago.edu In this editorial, I summarise the ...
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Ten challenges in improving quality in healthcare: lessons from the Health Foundation's programme evaluations and relevant literature

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, ...
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Case-mix adjusted hospital mortality is a poor proxy for preventable mortality: a modelling study

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 ...
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Health and social services expenditures: associations with health outcomes

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 ...
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The problem with medication reconciliation

Correspondence to Dr Joshua M Pevnick, Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Health System, 8700 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, California 90048, USA; ...
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Changes in safety attitude and relationship to decreased postoperative morbidity and mortality following implementation of a checklist-based surgical safety intervention

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, ...
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Does the use of structured interventions to guide ward rounds affect patient outcomes? A systematic review

Background Ward rounds are an essential activity occurring in hospital settings. Despite their fundamental role in guiding patient care, they have no standardised approach. Implementation of ...
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A case of the birth and death of a high reliability healthcare organisation

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Patient safety culture in primary care: developing a theoretical framework for practical use

1 School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK 2 School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK 3 Division of Primary Care, ...
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Nurses’ attitudes to a medical emergency team service in a teaching hospital

1 Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre (ANZIC-RC), Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 2 Intensive Care Unit, ...
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Understanding reasons for asthma outpatient (non)-attendance and exploring the role of telephone and e-consulting in facilitating access to care: exploratory qualitative study

2 National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK 3 Department of Primary Care and Social Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK 4 Division of Community Health Sciences: ...