Background Double-checking of medication administration is a safety practice used in hospitals around the world. Independence ...
Background Children represent fewer than 10% of emergency medical services (EMS) encounters in the USA. We evaluated whether ...
1 Centre of Research Excellence in Patient Safety, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Victoria, Australia 2 Centre for Health Policy, Programs and Economics, ...
Crabtree Hall, Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA Correspondence to: N G Castle A640 Crabtree Hall, Graduate School of Public Health, 130 DeSoto Street, Pittsburgh, PA ...
Objective To examine the impact of nursing team size and composition on inpatient hospital mortality. Design A retrospective longitudinal study using linked nursing staff rostering and patient data.
1 Centre for Medicines Safety and Service Quality, Pharmacy Department, Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust, The School of Pharmacy, University of London, London, UK 2 Department of Pharmacy, Kingston ...
Background Catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI) are costly, common and often preventable by reducing unnecessary urinary catheter (UC) use. Methods To summarise interventions to reduce ...
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 ...
1 Betsy Lehman Center for Patient Safety, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 2 Patient Safety and Quality Initiatives, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 3 Harvard Medical School ...
In this issue of BMJ Quality & Safety , Schnipper et al report the effects of a refined evidence-based toolkit and mentored implementation of a complex medication reconciliation intervention, ...
Background Teamwork and communication are recognised as key contributors to safe and high-quality patient care. Interventions targeting process and relational aspects of care may therefore provide ...
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