Institute and Outpatient Clinic for Occupational, Social, and Environmental Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany Correspondence to Matthias Weigl, Institute and Outpatient ...

1 Institute and Outpatient Clinic for Occupational, Social, and Environmental Medicine, Munich University, Munich, Germany 2 Institute for Occupational and Social Medicine, University of Düsseldorf, ...

Introduction Monitoring hospital mortality rates is widely recommended. However, the number of preventable deaths remains uncertain with estimates in England ranging from 840 to 40 000 per year, these ...

Objective: To examine whether staff feedback on quality, safety and workforce issues is reflected in patient-reported experience. Setting: 166 NHS acute trusts in England. Participants: Respondents to ...

Patient safety has become an international priority with major research programmes being carried out in the USA, UK, and elsewhere. The challenge is how to organize research efforts that will produce ...

Background: Evidence-based clinical guidelines aim to improve the quality of care. In The Netherlands, considerable time and effort have been invested in the development and implementation of evidence ...

Evaluation of improvement initiatives in healthcare is essential to establishing whether interventions are effective and to understanding how and why they work in order to enable replication. Although ...

1 Dr Foster Unit at Imperial College, Department of Primary Care and Social Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK 2 Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, Chelsea and Westminster ...

In a companion paper, we proposed that cognitive debiasing is a skill essential in developing sound clinical reasoning to mitigate the incidence of diagnostic failure. We reviewed the origins of ...

1 Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre (ANZIC-RC), Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 2 Intensive Care Unit, ...

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, ...