If a quality improvement is found effective in one setting, would the same effects be found elsewhere? Could the same change be implemented in another setting? These are just two of the ...

Purpose To assess the impact of personalised physician learning (PPL) interventions using simulated learning cases on control of hypertension and dyslipidaemia in primary care settings. Methods A ...

1 Department of Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 2 Department of Pharmacy, Unit of Pharmacotherapy and Pharmaceutical Care, ...

Closing the gap on healthcare quality for equity-deserving groups: a scoping review of equity-focused quality improvement interventions in medicine ...

Objectives—To develop, validate, and test the reliability of an audit instrument that measures the extent to which patient records describe important aspects of nursing care. Material—Twenty records ...

‘The Problem with…’ series covers controversial topics related to efforts to improve healthcare quality, including widely recommended but deceptively difficult strategies for improvement and pervasive ...

Investigations of accidents in a number of hazardous domains suggest that a cluster of organisational pathologies—the “vulnerable system syndrome” (VSS)—render some systems more liable to adverse ...

1 Department of Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH, USA 2 Departments of Pediatrics and of Internal Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH, USA 3 Veterans ...

1 Center for Quality and Productivity Improvement, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA 2 Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison ...

1 Department of Pediatrics, Perinatal Institute, James M. Anderson Centre for Health Systems Excellence, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA 2 Associates in Process ...

Quality of care in Singapore has seen a paradigm shift from a traditional focus on structural approaches to a broader multidimensional concept which includes the monitoring of clinical indicators and ...

5 Director of the Centre for Research in Evidence-based Practice, Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Bond University, Headington, UK Correspondence to Professor Mary Dixon-Woods, Department of ...