To improve patient safety, surgeons can continually monitor the surgical outcomes of their patients. To this end, they can use statistical process control tools, which primarily originated in the ...

Social Science Applied to Healthcare Improvement Research Group, Department of Health Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK Correspondence to Professor Mary Dixon-Woods, ...

Correspondence to Shirley M Moore, Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106-4904, USA; smm8{at}case.edu Traditionally, nurses have had a key role in ...

Centre for Medication Safety and Service Quality, UCL School of Pharmacy and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK Correspondence to Monsey Chan McLeod,Centre for Medication Safety and ...

Correspondence to Professor Ken Catchpole, Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), Charleston, South Carolina 29407, USA; catchpol{at}musc.edu ...

Objectives: To conduct a multicentre study on adverse event and near miss reporting in the NHS and to explore the feasibility of creating a national system for collecting these data. Design: ...

1 Department of Pediatrics and Children’s Research Institute, Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, WI, USA 2 Department of Family and Community Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin in ...

Background Healthcare-associated infections (HAI) are a common preventable complication of hospital care and represent a major threat to patient safety, especially in low- and middle-income countries.

2 University of Leeds Institute of Medical Education, Leeds, UK What has gone relatively unnoticed in these recent discussions about the potential of video in the operating room is the possibilities ...

Comparing safety, performance and user perceptions of a patient-specific indication-based prescribing tool with current practice: a mixed methods randomised user testing study ...

2 Centre for Clinical Governance Research, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Background Clinical networks have been designed ...