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 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.

School of Health & Related Research (ScHARR), University of Sheffield, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK Correspondence to Dr Andrew Booth, School of Health & Related Research (ScHARR), University of ...

Expression of concern: Reducing opioid use for chronic non-cancer pain in primary care using an evidence-based, theory-informed, multistrategic, multistakeholder approach: a single-arm time series ...

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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 ...

Objective Overconfidence is an important source of medical error. This review analyses experimental studies of confidence in ...

Statistical process control (SPC) charts provide a natural approach to analysing time series data for healthcare quality ...

2 Professor of General Practice, Department of General Practice, University of Antwerp, Universiteitsplein 1, 2610 Antwerp, Belgium 3 Professor of Quality in Health Care, Clinical Governance Research ...

Background Valproate exposure during pregnancy causes major congenital malformations in 11% and neurodevelopmental disorders in 30–40% of exposed children. Despite regulatory interventions, including ...

In 2009, the National Patient Safety Foundation’s Lucian Leape Institute (LLI) published a paper identifying five areas of healthcare that require system-level attention and action to advance patient ...

Correspondence to Dr James Mountford, UCLPartners, 3rd Floor, 170 Tottenham Court Road, London W1T 7HA, UK; james.mountford{at}uclpartners.com One of us was shown a letter received by a hospital ...