Introduction Duplicate medical records occur when a single patient is assigned multiple medical record numbers within an ...

Background: Healthcare providers work increasingly under a variety of shift work systems to cover the continuous care required by patients. However, the effects of shift work on patient and provider ...

3 National Institute for Health Research Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (NIHR CLAHRC) Wessex, Southampton, UK Objective To determine the association between daily ...

Embracing practice-based quality improvement (QI) represents one way for clinicians to improve the care they provide to patients while also improving their own professional satisfaction. But engaging ...

Correspondence to Dr Gai Cole, Emergency Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medicine, 5801 Smith Ave, Davis Building, Suite 220, Baltimore, MD 21209, USA; gcole4{at}jhmi.edu Background Interruptions to nursing ...

Correspondence to Dr S Ryan Greysen, Division of Hospital Medicine, UCSF, 533 Parnassus Ave, UC Hall, Suite 127A, San Francisco, California 94143, USA; ryan.greysen{at}ucsf.edu Importance Patient ...

Centre for Clinical Psychology & Healthcare Research, University of Northumbria at Newcastle, Kielder House, Coach Lane Campus, Benton, Newcastle upon Tyne NE7 7XA, UK Improvements in patient safety ...

1 Division of General Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 2 Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public ...

Centre for Health Systems and Safety Research, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Correspondence to Dr Joanne Callen, Centre for Health Systems and Safety Research, ...

This example provides a summary of a real case that occurred in a hospital and the failure to learn from the incident in spite of a root cause analysis. In a large acute hospital, a patient underwent ...

2 National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC) for North-West London, London, UK Correspondence to Michael J Taylor, Academic ...

1 Department of Health Management and Policy, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA 2 CS Mott Children's Hospital, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Nursing, University ...