Background Clinical encounters with patients who display challenging behaviours (eg, rude, demanding) are increasingly common ...
1 Marquette University School of Dentistry, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA 2 Kaiser Permanente Division of Research, Pleasanton, Washington, USA 3 School of Dentistry, University of California San ...
1 Centre for Health Systems and Safety Research, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia 2 Radiofrequency Identification Applications Laboratory, ...
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.
Royal College of Nursing Institute, Royal College of Nursing, London, UK. The argument put forward in this paper is that successful implementation of research into practice is a function of the ...
Background There is a poorly understood relationship between Leadership WalkRounds (WR) and domains such as safety culture, employee engagement, burnout and work-life balance. Methods This ...
Background: International interest in clinical practice guidelines has never been greater but many published guidelines do not meet the basic quality requirements. There have been renewed calls for ...
Objective To introduce a new type of risk-adjusted (RA) exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) chart and to compare it to a commonly used type of variable life adjusted display chart for ...
Evaluating the effects of increasing nursing numbers on quality of newborn care in understaffed neonatal units in Kenya: a prospective intervention study ...
Box 1 IOM recommendations Establish a national focus on patient safety by creating a centre for patient safety within the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Identify and learn from errors by ...
1 Department of Medicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, USA 2 Department of Public Health, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, USA 3 Department of ...