The healthcare delivered in high-income countries is riddled with defects in value. One in 10 patients experiences harm when ...

In this issue of BMJ Quality & Safety , Hampton and colleagues report a process evaluation of an intervention trial intended ...

Education and training are important elements in patient safety, both as a potential contributing factor to risks and hazards of healthcare associated injury or harm and as an intervention to be used ...

4 Danish Society for Patient Safety, Hvidovre Hospital, Hvidovre, Denmark Correspondence to: P Knudsen Pharmakon a/s, Danish College of Pharmacy Practice, DK-3400 Hillerød, Denmark; ...

1 Centre for Health Systems and Safety Research, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, UNSW Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 2 Faculty of Science, ...

There is wide belief that organisational culture shapes many aspects of performance, including safety. Yet proof of this relationship in a medical context is hard to find. In contrast to human factors ...

Objective To assess the association of county-level bias about black and white people with patient experience, influenza ...

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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Correspondence to Dr Hanan Alahmadi, Health Administration, Institute of Public Administration, PO Box 205, Riyadh 11141, Saudi Arabia; h_alahmadi{at}yahoo.com Context Healthcare organisations in ...

1 School of Nursing, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada 2 School of Health Policy and Management, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Background As efforts to integrate patient safety ...

Background Creating and sustaining an institutional climate conducive to patient and health worker safety is a critical ...