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

The continued use of low-value cancer screening practices not only represents healthcare waste but also a potential cascade of invasive diagnostic procedures and patient anxiety and distress. While ...

Background Allied health professionals (AHPs) in inpatient mental health, learning disability and autism services work in cultures dominated by other professions who often poorly understand their ...

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 ...

The investigation of incidents and accidents, together with subsequent reflection and action, is an essential component of safety management in every safety-critical industry, including healthcare. A ...

1 NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Patient Safety, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia 2 The Alfred Hospital, National Trauma Research Institute, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia ...

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 ...

3 University Düsseldorf, Medical Faculty, Institute for Occupational Medicine and Social Medicine, Düsseldorf, Germany Correspondence to Dr Matthias Weigl, Institute and Outpatient Clinic for ...

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 ...

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 ...

Correspondence to Professor David Reeves, NIHR School for Primary Care Research, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, The University of Manchester Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, ...