Introduction There is increased recognition that diagnostic errors disproportionately affect marginalised and underserved patient populations in the USA. However, evidence on diagnostic inequities in ...

Background Surgical complications represent a significant cause of morbidity and mortality with the rate of major complications after inpatient surgery estimated at 3–17% in industrialised countries.

Introduction Monitoring hospital mortality rates is widely recommended. However, the number of preventable deaths remains uncertain with estimates in England ranging from 840 to 40 000 per year, these ...

1 Department of Psychology, Institute for Simulation & Training, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, USA 2 Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Armstrong Institute for ...

Correspondence to Dr Jaap F Hamming, Department of Surgery, Leiden University Medical Center, Albinusdreef 2, 2333 ZA, Leiden, The Netherlands; J.F.Hamming{at}lumc.nl ‘The problem with…’ series covers ...

Correspondence to Dr Rishi Sikka, Advocate Health Care, 3075 Highland Avenue, Suite 600, Downers Grove, Il 60515, USA; rishi.sikka{at}advocatehealth.com In 2008, Donald Berwick and colleagues provided ...

Objective To examine 27 low-value procedures, as defined by international recommendations, in New South Wales public hospitals. Design Analysis of admitted patient data for financial years 2010–2011 ...

Correspondence to Dr Kaveh G Shojania, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Room H468, 2075 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4N 3M5; kaveh.shojania{at}sunnybrook.ca A decade and a half later, ...

15 Centre for Health Services & Nursing Research, Catholic University Leuven, Leuven, Belgium 16 Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, ...

Background Informed consent for medical interventions is ethically and legally required; an important aspect of quality and safety in healthcare; and essential to person-centred care. During labour ...

If a quality improvement is found effective in one setting, would the same effects be found elsewhere? Could the same change be implemented in another setting? These are just two of the ...

1 White River Junction VA, Community and Family Medicine, and Medicine, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, White River Junction, Vermont, USA 2 University of Toronto, Centre for Quality ...