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 ...
The last 5 years have seen a rapid growth in research applying artificial intelligence or machine learning to improve the quality and safety of healthcare. This coincides with the release of web ...
Background Quality improvement collaboratives (QIC) have proliferated internationally, but there is little empirical evidence for their effectiveness. Method We searched Medline, Embase, CINAHL, ...
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 ...
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 ...
The importance of learning from medical error has recently received increasing emphasis. This paper focuses on prescribing errors and argues that, while learning from ...
Objectives (1) To improve quality and equity by increasing utilisation of mammography screening among Israeli Arab women. (2) To explore effectiveness of designing interventions with a combined ...
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 ...
‘The Problem with…’ series covers controversial topics related to efforts to improve healthcare quality, including widely recommended, but deceptively difficult strategies for improvement and ...
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 ...
Mistake proofing uses changes in the physical design of processes to reduce human error. It can be used to change designs in ways that prevent errors from occurring ...
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 ...