1 University of Technology Sydney, Centre for Health Communication, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 2 HSPIB, NSW Ministry of Health, North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 3 Emergency Department, ...
Theories provide a way of understanding and predicting the effects of patient safety practices (PSPs), interventions intended to prevent or mitigate harm caused by healthcare or risks of such harm.
Qualitative research can make a valuable contribution to the study of quality and safety in health care. Sound ways of appraising qualitative research are needed, but currently there are many ...
Objective: To explore scepticism and resistance towards changes in working practice designed to achieve service improvement. Two principal questions were studied: (1) why some people are sceptical or ...
Background Evidence-based clinical practice guidelines recommend discussion by a multidisciplinary team (MDT) to review and plan the management of patients for a variety of cancers. However, not all ...
3 National Primary Care Research and Development Centre, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK 4 Centre for Primary Care and Population Research, University of Dundee, The Mackenzie Building, ...
1 Professor of Health Policy and Management, The Nordic School of Public Health and The Karolinska Institute, Sweden, and The Faculty of Medicine, Bergen University, Norway 2 Robert Ratner Professor ...
Background Patient advocates and safety experts encourage adoption of transparent health records, but sceptics worry that shared notes may offend patients, erode trust or promote defensive medicine.
This commentary explores the nature of creating safety in the here-and-now. Creating safety encompasses two dimensions: revisiting specific behaviours by focusing on substandard performance ...
Overuse of medical devices such as urinary and vascular catheters remains a pervasive problem contributing to preventable hospital-associated infections and other complications. There is not much ...
Chronic conditions are increasingly the primary concern of healthcare systems throughout the world. In response to this challenge, the World Health Organization has joined with the MacColl Institute ...
Correspondence to Dr Andrew Jordan Sun, Departments of General Surgery and Urology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305, USA; ajsun{at}stanford.edu Background Resident ...
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