Objective Quality improvement (QI) practices and scholarship are increasingly concerned with environmental sustainability ...

Objectives Many hospitals use fall prevention alarms, despite the limited evidence of effectiveness. The objectives of this study were (1) to identify, conceptualise and select strategies to ...

‘We need bold, fundamental change that gets at the roots of the burnout crisis.’- US Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy, MD, MBA. The key is understanding what is suboptimal. Their main findings from 124 ...

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Background Healthcare leaders look to high-reliability organisations (HROs) for strategies to improve safety, despite questions about how to translate these strategies into practice. Weick and ...

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1 Centre for Medicines Safety and Service Quality, Pharmacy Department, Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust, The School of Pharmacy, University of London, London, UK 2 Department of Pharmacy, Kingston ...

The objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of quality improvement (QI) and patient safety initiatives and data disaggregation on racial disparities in severe maternal morbidity from ...

Background Problems of quality and safety persist in health systems worldwide. We conducted a large research programme to examine culture and behaviour in the English National Health Service (NHS).

2 Wolfson Unit of Clinical Pharmacology, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4HH, UK; National Institute for Clinical Excellence, MidCity Place, 71 High Holborn, London WC1V 6NA, UK 3 ...

Introduction Barcode medication administration (BCMA) can, if poorly implemented, cause disrupted workflow, increased workload and cause medication errors. Further exploration is needed of the causes ...

Background Despite over a decade of efforts to reduce the adverse event rate in healthcare, the rate has remained relatively unchanged. Root cause analysis (RCA) is a process used by hospitals in an ...