Quality of care in Singapore has seen a paradigm shift from a traditional focus on structural approaches to a broader multidimensional concept which includes the monitoring of clinical indicators and ...

CPPM, School of Management, The Gateway Building, North Haugh, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife, Scotland Correspondence to: R Rushmer CPPM, School of Management, The Gateway Building, North ...

Correspondence to Dr Stephanie Tierney, University of Warwick Warwick Medical School, Warwick Medical School, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK; stephanie.tierney{at}warwick.ac.uk Nursing, in particular, has been ...

2 Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden 3 Department of Social Work, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden Background Advocates ...

2 Center for Innovation in Interprofessional Education, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA 3 Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, University of California San ...

Background Experience-based codesign (EBCD) is an approach to health service design that engages patients and healthcare staff in partnership to develop and improve health services or pathways of care ...

1 The Centre for Medical and Health Sciences Education, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand 2 University of Auckland School of Medicine, Auckland, New Zealand 3 Simulation Centre for Patient ...

Traditional quality control methods identify “variation” as the enemy. However, the control of variation by itself can never achieve the remarkably low non-conformance rates of world class quality ...

Aim Team performance is important in multidisciplinary teams (MDTs), but no tools exist for assessment. Our objective was to construct a robust tool for scientific assessment of MDT performance.

Dr P Lagerløv, Department of Pharmacotherapeutics, University of Oslo, P O Box 1065 Blindern, N-0316 Oslo, Norway per.lagerlov{at}netcom.no Background—It is difficult to put research findings into ...

The Cognitive Technologies Laboratory, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA Correspondence to Nurit Porat, Hadassah University Medical Center, Ein Kerem, PO Box 12000, Jerusalem 91120, Israel ...