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.

Background In 2019, NHS England launched the second version of the Saving Babies’ Lives Care Bundle (SBLCBv2), ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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, ...

Correspondence to Stephanie P Schwartz, Department of Pediatrics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Children's Hospital, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA; stephanie_schwartz{at}unc.edu Background ...

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3 Institute of Medical Education Research, Rotterdam, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam Correspondence to Professor Pat Croskerry, Division of Medical Education, Dalhousie University, ...

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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 Houston Veterans Affairs Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety, Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center and the Section of Health Services Research, Department of ...