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 ...

Objective: To develop a taxonomy describing patient safety events in general practice from reports submitted by a random representative sample of general practitioners (GPs), and to determine ...

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 ...

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 ...

Social Science Research Group, Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK Correspondence to Professor Mary Dixon-Woods, Social Science Research Group, Department of Health ...

Background Respiratory distress syndrome and chronic lung disease are prevalent disorders in extremely low-birth-weight infants. Evidence demonstrates that timely surfactant administration improves ...

Correspondence to Dr Marc Philip T Pimentel, Anesthesiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA; mppimentel{at}bwh.harvard.edu In healthcare quality improvement, we are trained to ...

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 ...