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Statistical process control (SPC) charts provide a natural approach to analysing time series data for healthcare quality ...
Objective Overconfidence is an important source of medical error. This review analyses experimental studies of confidence in medical diagnosis to identify factors affecting clinicians’ confidence in ...
Correspondence to Dr Andrea M Patey, Centre for Implementation Research, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON K1H 8L6, Canada; apatey{at}ohri.ca In contrast to interventions delivered at the ...
What should we do in order to improve quality and safety in medicines management? How beneficial is it to design the medicines management system—for example, the tasks, tools and physical ...
1 NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Nursing Interventions for Hospitalised Patients (NCREN), Research Centre for Clinical and Community Practice Innovation (RCCCPI), Griffith Health Institute, ...
1 Brigham and Women's Hospital Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 2 Harvard School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Importance Medication computerised ...
Correspondence to Dr Alan J Card, Evidence-Based Health Solutions, LLC, PO Box 62, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA; alan.j.card{at}gmail.com ‘The Problem with…’ series covers controversial topics related to ...
Background Healthcare organisations have legal and ethical duties to reduce inequalities in access to healthcare services and related outcomes. However, lesbian, gay, bisexual and/or transgender ...
Background Hospitalised patients whose inpatient teams rotate off service experience increased mortality related to end-of-rotation care transitions, yet standardised handoff practices are lacking.
The Oxford Professional Practice Handbook of Quality Improvement in Healthcare 1 is the latest in a series of books that will be very familiar to readers in the UK and other parts of the world. Many ...
Objective: To develop recommendations for promoting uptake of and adherence to falls-prevention interventions among older people. Design: The recommendations were initially developed from literature ...