Background Thyroid function laboratory testing is often overused. Tailored de-implementation interventions require an understanding of underlying barriers and facilitators contributing to overuse.
Correspondence to Professor Enrico Coiera, Centre for Health Informatics, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2055, Australia; e.coiera{at}unsw.edu.au ...
Social Science Applied to Healthcare Improvement Research Group, Department of Health Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK Correspondence to Professor Mary Dixon-Woods, ...
Audit and feedback (A&F) is a commonly used quality improvement (QI) approach. A Cochrane review indicates that A&F is generally effective and leads to modest improvements in professional practice but ...
Objectives: To assess current attitudes towards the national patient survey programme in England, establish the extent to which survey results are used and identify barriers and incentives for using ...
Correspondence to Dr Rishi Sikka, Advocate Health Care, 3075 Highland Avenue, Suite 600, Downers Grove, Il 60515, USA; rishi.sikka{at}advocatehealth.com In 2008, Donald Berwick and colleagues provided ...
Introduction: The frequency of adverse events in the operating theatre has been linked to the quality of teamwork and communication. Developing suitable measures of teamwork may play a role in ...
Choosing Wisely (CW) campaigns globally have focused attention on the need to reduce low-value care, which can represent up to 30% of the costs of healthcare. Despite early enthusiasm for the CW ...
4 Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Background Clinical information may be lost during the transfer of critically injured trauma patients from the emergency ...
Monash University and Southern Health Simulation and Skills Centre, Melbourne, Australia Dr S Marshall, Southern Health Simulation and Skills Centre, PO Box 72, East Bentleigh, VIC 3165, Australia; ...
Evaluating the effects of increasing nursing numbers on quality of newborn care in understaffed neonatal units in Kenya: a prospective intervention study ...
Background Surgical complications represent a significant cause of morbidity and mortality with the rate of major complications after inpatient surgery estimated at 3–17% in industrialised countries.
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