The 1999 Institute of Medicine report raised public awareness of the frequency and cost of adverse drug events in medicine. In response, in November 2000 a coalition of healthcare purchasers announced ...

Background Quality improvement (QI) efforts have become widespread in healthcare, however there is significant variability in their success. Differences in context are thought to be responsible for ...

Objectives To document the burden of in-hospital falls and fractures, and to identify factors that may increase the risk of these events. Design A retrospective cohort analysis Setting The study was ...

Background With the introduction of Computerised Physician Order Entry (CPOE) in routine hospital care, a great deal of effort has been put into refining Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS) to ...

Methods We conducted a pragmatic quality improvement (QI) study at five US hospitals, two of which included concurrent controls. The intervention consisted of local implementation of medication ...

Background: The potential severity of wrong patient/procedure/site of surgery and the view that these events are avoidable, make the prevention of such errors a priority. An intervention was set up to ...

Aim: To describe how quantitative data obtained from applying a series of indicators for preventable drug related morbidity (PDRM) in the electronic patient record in English general practice can be ...

Striving for Equity in the Quality and Safety of Patient Care. CONTENT. Latest content; Current issue; Archive; Browse by collection; Most read articles ...

Objectives To sustainably reduce the rate of mislabelled laboratory specimens through implementation of a series of interventions as led and coordinated by a multidisciplinary performance improvement ...

In BMJ Quality & Safety , Shah et al report their evaluation of the degree to which efforts in the US Veterans Health Administration to reduce electronic health record (EHR)-related information ...

Do good without fear and tell the truth. For Henry Beecher, this was both wisdom and paradox. Reality and perception are not always the same. Beecher was born in Peck, Kansas in 1904 with the birth ...

quality; measurement; nursing home; skilled nursing facility; The USA has measured the quality of care delivered in nursing homes for decades.1 While these efforts represent important steps towards a ...