1 Houston VA HSR&D Center of Excellence and The Center of Inquiry to Improve Outpatient Safety Through Effective Electronic Communication, Houston, Texas, USA 2 Department of Medicine, Baylor College ...

Correspondence to Dr Mark V Williams, Center for Health Services Research, University of Kentucky Medical Center, Lexington, KY 40536, USA; mark.will{at}uky.edu Background Despite recommendations and ...

Correspondence to Professor Rachel Ann Elliott, Manchester Centre for Health Economics, School of Health Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK; ...

Correspondence to Dr Heather Colquhoun, Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, University of Toronto, 160-500 University Ave, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5G1V7; heather.colquhoun{at}utoronto.ca ...

Background: Evidence-based clinical guidelines aim to improve the quality of care. In The Netherlands, considerable time and effort have been invested in the development and implementation of evidence ...

Correspondence to Dr Ian Litchfield, School of Health and Population Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK; litchfii{at}adf.bham.ac.uk Background The testing and result ...

1 Department of Family Medicine and MEDEX Northwest, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA 2 Department of Biobehavioral Nursing, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA 3 ...

Background The organisation of junior doctors' work hours has been radically altered following the partial implementation of the European Working Time Directive. Poorly designed shift schedules cause ...

1 Centre for Patient Safety and Service Quality (CPSSQ), Division of Surgery and Cancer, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK 2 Centre for Medication Safety ...

1 Health Informatics Research & Evaluation Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia 2 Centre for Health Informatics, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Faculty ...

Dr M J M H (Kiki) Lombarts, Academic Medical Center, Department of Social Medicine, University of Amsterdam, Meibergdreef 9, P.O. Box 22700, 1100 DE Amsterdam, the Netherlands; M.J.Lombarts{at}amc.uva ...

Background Although well-established principles exist for improving the timeliness and efficiency of care, many organisations struggle to achieve more than small-scale, localised gains. Where care ...