3 Health Services Research Unit, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK Correspondence to: Professor M Eccles, Professor of Clinical Effectiveness, Centre for Health Services Research, 21 Claremont ...

1 National Nursing Research Unit, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, King's College London, London, UK 2 Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, King's College London, ...

Background Although well-established principles exist for improving the timeliness and efficiency of care, many organisations struggle to achieve more than small-scale, localised gains. Where care ...

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, ...

Although healthcare quality and patient safety have longstanding international attention, the target of reducing diagnostic errors has only recently gained prominence, even though numerous patients, ...

2 Department of Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA 3 Department of Surgery, Olive View-UCLA Medical Center, Sylmar, California, USA Correspondence to Dr ...

1 Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA 2 Division of Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA 3 Department ...

Correspondence to Professor Rachel Ann Elliott, Manchester Centre for Health Economics, School of Health Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK; ...

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Context Health consumer escalation of acute deterioration response systems are now widely available to help facilitate early ...

Background Healthcare patient safety investigations inappropriately focus on individual culpability and the target of ...

Background Natural hazards, such as earthquakes, pose a significant risk to both the public and healthcare professionals, jeopardising patient safety due to the disruption of healthcare systems and ...