Background Intraoperative hypothermia can lead to adverse clinical outcomes and avoidable financial and environmental costs. Environmentally preferable warming practices have been identified, ...
The role and value of theory in improvement work in healthcare has been seriously underrecognised. We join others in proposing that more informed use of theory can strengthen improvement programmes ...
Ten years ago, the Institute of Medicine reported alarming data on the scope and impact of medical errors in the US and called for national efforts to address this problem. While efforts to improve ...
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 ...
Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics (LIME), Medical Management Centre (MMC), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden Correspondence to Susanne Ullström, Department of Learning, ...
Background Although widely recommended as an effective approach to quality improvement (QI), the Plan–Do–Study–Act (PDSA) cycle method can be challenging to use, and low fidelity of published accounts ...
Introduction Efforts to enact nurse staffing legislation often lack timely, local evidence about how specific policies could directly impact the public’s health. Despite numerous studies indicating ...
1 Brigham and Women's Hospital Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 2 Harvard School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Importance Medication computerised ...
Aim: To describe emergency ambulance crews’ views about (1) how they make decisions on whether to convey patients to hospital; (2) an intervention enabling them to triage patients to non-conveyance; ...
Correspondence to Professor Albert W. Wu, Center for Health Services and Outcomes Research, 624 N. Broadway, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA; awu{at}jhsph.edu In the past decade, hospitals and healthcare ...
1 Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA 2 Division of General Internal Medicine, Kyoto University Hospital, Kyoto, Japan 3 Harvard ...
Evaluating the effects of increasing nursing numbers on quality of newborn care in understaffed neonatal units in Kenya: a prospective intervention study ...
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