1 Division of Health Services Management and Policy, College of Public Health, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA 2 Department of Surgery, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, ...

Education and training are important elements in patient safety, both as a potential contributing factor to risks and hazards of healthcare associated injury or harm and as an intervention to be used ...

In this issue of BMJ Quality & Safety , Hampton and colleagues report a process evaluation of an intervention trial intended ...

The healthcare delivered in high-income countries is riddled with defects in value. One in 10 patients experiences harm when ...

Correspondence to Professor Simon Stewart, Preventative Cardiology, Baker Heart Research Institute, 75 Commercial Road, Melbourne, Victoria, 3004, Australia; simon.stewart{at}baker.edu.au Background ...

4 Danish Society for Patient Safety, Hvidovre Hospital, Hvidovre, Denmark Correspondence to: P Knudsen Pharmakon a/s, Danish College of Pharmacy Practice, DK-3400 Hillerød, Denmark; ...

1 Director, Quality & Productivity Laboratory, MIME Department, 334 Snell Engineering Center, 360 Huntington Avenue, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA 2 Director, Quality Resource ...

4 Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA Correspondence to Dr Christopher E Dandoy, Bone Marrow Transplantation and Immune Deficiency, Cincinnati Children's Hospital ...

Unit of Cancer Epidemiology, San Giovanni Battista Hospital, University of Turin and CPO Piemonte, Turin, Italy Background and objective: The impact of clinical guidelines (GL) on venous ...

1 Department of Anesthesia, Women's College Hospital and Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2 School of Nursing, York University, Toronto, Ontario, ...

1 Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2 Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Correspondence ...

Background Equal access for all based on need is part of a conceptualisation of quality underpinning recent UK NHS policies. Objective To develop metrics for access to maternity care from routinely ...