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 ...

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

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

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; ...

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 ...

1 Department of Anesthesia, Women's College Hospital and Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2 School of Nursing, York University, Toronto, Ontario, ...

1 Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2 Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Correspondence ...

Healthcare personnel often find it challenging to incorporate disciplined quality improvement into their daily work. Planning, managing and completing improvement projects with sufficient rigour to ...

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

1 Centre for Clinical Governance Research, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 2 Centre for Health Systems and Safety Research, ...

Background & objectives Little is known about how parents think about neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) safety. Due to their physiologic immaturity and small size, infants in NICUs are especially ...