Objectives With the growing adoption of virtual consultations in primary care, the need for tailored metrics to evaluate ...

Introduction QI education is essential for resident physicians with established requirements from the Accreditation Council ...

Handoffs have become integral to almost all aspects of hospital-based care. Realities such as duty hour limitations and shift ...

Objective Our aim was to see if the reporting of better experiences by elective surgical patients was associated with better outcomes (effectiveness and safety). The objectives were to: describe the ...

Objective To identify bias in using a single machine learning (ML) sepsis prediction model across multiple hospitals and care locations; evaluate the impact of six different bias mitigation strategies ...

Introduction: Care home residents are at particular risk from medication errors, and our objective was to determine the prevalence and potential harm of prescribing, monitoring, dispensing and ...

Front-line medical teams are experiencing unprecedented stressors as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. In the face of these pressures, teamwork has become both more important and more challenging.

From complaint material to quality improvement: Exploring the use of patient complaints or compensation claims in quality improvement initiatives—a scoping review ...

Does Tall Man lettering prevent drug name confusion errors? Incomplete and conflicting evidence suggest need for definitive study ...

Introduction Data were used from inpatient, outpatient and accident and emergency surveys in acute trusts in England to examine consistency in patient-reported experience across services, and factors ...

Background Sepsis causes substantial morbidity and mortality in hospitalised patients. Although many studies describe the use of protocols in the management of patients with severe sepsis and septic ...