Introduction Patients who had a stroke often confront the trade-off between timely care at nearby hospitals and potentially ...

Background Children represent fewer than 10% of emergency medical services (EMS) encounters in the USA. We evaluated whether ...

Background Double-checking of medication administration is a safety practice used in hospitals around the world. Independence is recommended as the key to effectiveness. Independent double-checking ...

Objective To examine the impact of nursing team size and composition on inpatient hospital mortality. Design A retrospective longitudinal study using linked nursing staff rostering and patient data.

Centre for Health Informatics & Multiprofessional Education, Royal Free & University College Medical School, University College London, London, UK Correspondence to: G Robert Centre for Health ...

Correspondence to Professor Natalie Armstrong, Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK; na144{at}le.ac.uk If we understand overdiagnosis and overtreatment as a ...

Correspondence to Dr Craig G Gunderson, Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA; craig.gunderson{at}va.gov Background ...

Background Many hospital systems seek to improve patient satisfaction as assessed by the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) surveys. A systematic review of the ...

The traditional separation of the producers of research evidence in academia from the users of that evidence in healthcare organisations has not succeeded in closing the gap between what is known ...

Background There is a poorly understood relationship between Leadership WalkRounds (WR) and domains such as safety culture, employee engagement, burnout and work-life balance. Methods This ...

Correspondence to: Dr Johan Thor Medical Management Centre, Berzelius väg 3, 5th floor, Karolinska Institutet, S-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden; johan.thor{at}ki.se Objective: To systematically review the ...

1 Betsy Lehman Center for Patient Safety, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 2 Patient Safety and Quality Initiatives, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 3 Harvard Medical School ...