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; ...

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

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

Background Achieving high levels of patient satisfaction requires hospital management to be proactive in patient-centred care improvement initiatives and to engage frontline clinicians in this process ...

The clinical microsystem puts medical error and harm reduction into the broader context of safety and quality of care by providing a framework to assess and evaluate ...

Unit of Cancer Epidemiology, San Giovanni Battista Hospital, University of Turin and CPO Piemonte, Turin, Italy Background and objective: The impact of clinical guidelines (GL) on venous ...

Background There is an increasing number of quality indicators being reported publicly with aim to improve the transparency on hospital care quality. However, they are little used by patients.

5 Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 6 Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins ...

Background Isolation-based practices in nursing homes (NHs) differ from those in acute care. NHs must promote quality of life while preventing infection transmission. Practices used in NHs to ...