The clinical microsystem puts medical error and harm reduction into the broader context of safety and quality of care by providing a framework to assess and evaluate ...

1 Department of Family and Community Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA 2 Division of Biostatistics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA 3 Department ...

Correspondence to Professor Jeffrey Braithwaite, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia; jeffrey.braithwaite{at}mq.edu.au Background Bronchiolitis ...

Background Safety-netting is intended to protect against harm from uncertainty in diagnosis/disease trajectory. Despite recommendations to communicate diagnostic uncertainty when safety-netting, this ...

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 ...

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2 Department of Bachelor in Nursing, University College Arteveldehogeschool Ghent, Gent, Belgium Context Previous studies report that pressure ulcer classification and differentiation from ...

Objective To (a) examine whether the effect of the Choosing Wisely consumer questions on question-asking and shared decision-making (SDM) outcomes differs based on individuals’ health literacy and (b) ...

Correspondence to Dr Eduardo Salas, Department of Psychology, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA; eduardo.salas{at}rice.edu Front-line medical teams are experiencing unprecedented stressors as a ...

1 Department of Pediatrics, Perinatal Institute, James M. Anderson Centre for Health Systems Excellence, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA 2 Associates in Process ...

Correspondence to Miss A L Grove, WMG, The University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK; amy.grove{at}warwick.ac.uk Background This paper presents the findings of a 13-month lean implementation in ...