BMJ Quality & Safety4d
Impact of hospitals’ LGBTQ+ inclusion efforts on patient satisfaction from 2016 to 2023: a retrospective longitudinal observational study
Background Given the emphasis on promoting inclusive policies, we investigated the relationship between US hospitals’ ...
BMJ Quality & Safety7d
Using data science to improve patient care: rethinking clinician responsibility
Knowing what you are doing’ is a simple, but elemental value for any (care) professional. Acknowledging that treatments in ...
qualitysafety.bmj11h
Why poor quality of ethnicity data should not preclude its use for identifying disparities in health and healthcare
Background: Data of quality are needed to identify ethnic disparities in health and healthcare and to meet the challenges in governance of race relations. Yet concerns over completeness, accuracy and ...
qualitysafety.bmj5d
Psycholinguistic tests predict real-world drug name confusion error rates: a cross-sectional experimental study
Background Wrong-drug medication errors are common. Regulators screen drug names for confusability, but screening methods lack empirical validation. Previous work showed that psycholinguistic tests on ...
qualitysafety.bmj5d
Root-cause analysis: swatting at mosquitoes versus draining the swamp
4 University of Toronto Centre for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, Toronto, Ontario, Canada RCA represents a hypothesis-generating approach. The investigative team develops a detailed ...
qualitysafety.bmj13d
Demystifying theory and its use in improvement
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 ...
qualitysafety.bmj8d
Attitudes and barriers to incident reporting: a collaborative hospital study
Objectives: To assess awareness and use of the current incident reporting system and to identify factors inhibiting reporting of incidents in hospitals. Design, setting and participants: Anonymous ...
qualitysafety.bmj11d
Improving doctors' prescribing behaviour through reflection on guidelines and prescription feedback: a randomised controlled study
Dr P Lagerløv, Department of Pharmacotherapeutics, University of Oslo, P O Box 1065 Blindern, N-0316 Oslo, Norway per.lagerlov{at}netcom.no Background—It is difficult to put research findings into ...
qualitysafety.bmj6d
Teamwork, communication and safety climate: a systematic review of interventions to improve surgical culture
3 General Surgery, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, California, USA Correspondence to Dr Greg D Sacks, Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los ...
qualitysafety.bmj4d
The run chart: a simple analytical tool for learning from variation in healthcare processes
Background Those working in healthcare today are challenged more than ever before to quickly and efficiently learn from data to improve their services and delivery of care. There is broad agreement ...
qualitysafety.bmj3d
The problem with the existing reporting standards for adverse event and medical error research
The Enhancing the Quality and Transparency of Health Research (EQUATOR) Network indexes over 600 reporting guidelines designed to improve the reproducibility of manuscripts across medical fields and ...