Correspondence to Professor Rachel Ann Elliott, Manchester Centre for Health Economics, School of Health Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK; ...
Context Health consumer escalation of acute deterioration response systems are now widely available to help facilitate early recognition and response to acute deterioration in hospitals. Yet, a ...
Background Healthcare patient safety investigations inappropriately focus on individual culpability and the target of ...
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 ...
The physical environment has a significant impact on health and safety; however, hospitals have not been designed with the explicit goal of enhancing patient safety through facility design. In April ...
Background Health systems worldwide are increasingly holding boards of healthcare organisations accountable for the quality of care that they provide. Previous empirical research has found ...
Background Intraoperative hypothermia can lead to adverse clinical outcomes and avoidable financial and environmental costs. Environmentally preferable warming practices have been identified, ...
Importance Patients with poor glycaemic control have a high risk for major cardiovascular events. Improving glycaemic monitoring in patients with diabetes can improve morbidity and mortality.
1 Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto and Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences in Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2 Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 3 ...
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.
Background The association of nursing staffing with patient outcomes has primarily been studied by comparing high to low staffed hospitals, raising concern other factors may account for observed ...
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