Introduction Patients who had a stroke often confront the trade-off between timely care at nearby hospitals and potentially ...

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 ...

Background Handover practices at hospital discharge are relatively under-researched, particularly as regards the specific risks and additional requirements for handovers involving vulnerable patients ...

Correspondence to Dr Cecilia Vindrola-Padros, Department of Applied Health Research, University College London, 1-19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 7HB, UK; c.vindrola{at}ucl.ac.uk The use of embedded ...

Background Understaffing by nursing staff in hospitals is linked to patients coming to harm and dying unnecessarily. There is a vicious cycle whereby poor work conditions, including understaffing, can ...

Background Physicians should be engaged in quality-improvement activities to make the systems in which they work safer and more reliable. However, many physicians are still unable to contribute to ...

2 Institute for Simulation and Training, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, USA 3 Department of Psychology, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, USA 4 University of Kansas ...

The traditional separation of the producers of research evidence in academia from the users of that evidence in healthcare organisations has not succeeded in closing the gap between what is known ...

Correspondence to: Professor R Flin Industrial Psychology Research Centre, University of Aberdeen, King’s College, Old Aberdeen AB24 2UB, UK; r.flinabdn.ac.uk The importance of leadership for ...

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, ...

Correspondence to Dr Joshua M Pevnick, Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Health System, 8700 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, California 90048, USA; ...

Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 2PR, UK Correspondence to: Professor M W Calnan Department of Social Medicine, Canynge Hall, Whiteladies Road, University of Bristol, ...