More than 20 years since a landmark study1 documented hospitalised patients were more likely to die when their nurse cared for too many patients at a time, hundreds of rigorously conducted studies in ...

1 Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 2 Department of Emergency Medicine, University of British Columbia, ...

Objective There is a growing focus on quality and safety in healthcare. Outcome indicators are increasingly used to compare hospital performance and to rank hospitals, but the reliability of ranking ...

3 Institute of Clinical Education, Peninsula College of Medicine & Dentistry, Universities of Exeter and Plymouth, Plymouth, Devon, UK Correspondence to Jon Allard, Institute of Clinical Education, ...

This paper considers the application of discrete choice experiments for eliciting preferences in the delivery of health care. Drawing upon the results from a recently completed systematic review, the ...

Correspondence to Dr Matthew B Weinger, Anesthesiology/CRISS, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37212, USA; matt.weinger{at}vumc.org Despite numerous studies, gaps in the evidence to ...

Background Patient complaints are associated with adverse events and malpractice claims but underused in patient safety improvement. Objective To systematically evaluate the use of patient complaint ...

2 Agency for Clinical Innovation, NSW Ministry of Health, Faculty of Health, University of Tasmania, Australia 3 School of Nursing and Midwifery, Deakin University, Melbourne School of Health Sciences ...

Correspondence to Professor Helen E Lester, NIHR School for Primary Care Research, University of Manchester, 7th Floor Williamson Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK; ...

Correspondence to Professor Merrilyn Walton, Faculty of Medicine, Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia; merrilyn.walton ...

Background: Nosocomial infections occur in approximately 10% of patients in intensive care units (ICUs). Several studies have shown that a quality improvement initiative can reduce nosocomial ...

Correspondence to Dr Jonathan Zipursky, Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, M4N 3M5, Canada; jonathan.zipursky{at}mail.utoronto.ca The first reproductive drug safety initiatives were ...