3 Health Services Research Unit, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK Correspondence to: Professor M Eccles, Professor of Clinical Effectiveness, Centre for Health Services Research, 21 Claremont ...
2 Professor of General Practice, Department of General Practice, University of Antwerp, Universiteitsplein 1, 2610 Antwerp, Belgium 3 Professor of Quality in Health Care, Clinical Governance Research ...
Objective To understand how lean thinking has been put into practice in healthcare and how it has worked. Design A realist literature review. Data sources The authors systematically searched for ...
Background Quality improvement collaboratives (QIC) have proliferated internationally, but there is little empirical evidence for their effectiveness. Method We searched Medline, Embase, CINAHL, ...
Background Bedside rounds (BR) have been proposed as an ideal method to promote patient-centred hospital care, but there is substantial variation in their implementation and effects. Our objectives ...
In a time of financial uncertainty and structural reform, the National Health Service (NHS) in England needs clinical leadership to help improve the quality of patient care. Increasingly, leadership ...
1 Scientific Center for Care and Welfare (Tranzo), Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands 2 Center for Prevention and Health Services Research, National Institute for Public Health and the ...
One major difference between historical and nonhistorical judgment is that the historical judge typically knows how things turned out. In Experiment 1, receipt of such outcome knowledge was found to ...
3 Medical Decision Making, J10-S, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands Correspondence to Dr Leti van Bodegom-Vos, Department of Medical Decision Making, Leiden University Medical ...
1 Centre for Public Policy & Management, Department of Management, University of St Andrews, Fife, UK 2 Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, School of Health Sciences, Medical School, ...
Department of Anesthesiology and the Duke University Human Simulation and Patient Safety Center, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA Correspondence to: Melanie C Wright PhD ...
1 Division of General Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Partners HealthCare System, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA Correspondence to: Dr R Kaushal, Division of General ...