Background The number of quality indicators for which clinicians need to record data is increasing. For many indicators, there are concerns about their efficacy. This study aimed to determine whether ...

Background Informed consent for medical interventions is ethically and legally required; an important aspect of quality and safety in healthcare; and essential to person-centred care. During labour ...

There is wide belief that organisational culture shapes many aspects of performance, including safety. Yet proof of this relationship in a medical context is hard to find. In contrast to human factors ...

3 Center for Education in Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA 4 Institute for Medical Education, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, ...

Background To describe the diagnoses of people who present to the emergency department (ED) with low back pain (LBP), the proportion of people with a lumbar spine condition who arrived by ambulance, ...

Correspondence to Dr Edward Etchells, Department of Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Centre for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S, Canada; ...

This paper defines risk and its component elements and describes where clinical practice may be starting from in terms of what is reported in the literature about understanding risks and the ...

1 Houston VA HSR&D Center of Excellence and The Center of Inquiry to Improve Outpatient Safety Through Effective Electronic Communication, Houston, Texas, USA 2 Department of Medicine, Baylor College ...

Centre for Outcomes Research and Effectiveness, Department of Psychology, University College London, UK Correspondence to: Professor S Michie Centre for Outcomes Research and Effectiveness, University ...

1 Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, UK 2 Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Intensive Care, ...

Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Case School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA Correspondence to: Professor D Neuhauser Department of Epidemiology and ...