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 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 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, ...

Background Efforts to standardise data elements and increase the comprehensiveness of information included in patient handovers have produced a growing interest in augmenting the verbal exchange of ...

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 ...

1 Department of Oncology, Whittington Hospital NHS Trust, Magdala Avenue, London, UK 2 Department of Surgery, Whittington Hospital NHS Trust, Magdala Avenue, London, UK 3 Information Management and ...

Institute for General Practice, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany Dr B Hoffmann, Institute for General Practice, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt, Theodor-Stern-Kai 7, ...

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 ...

Background The effectiveness of audit and feedback (A&F) interventions to improve compliance to healthcare guidelines is supported by randomised controlled trials (RCTs) and meta-analyses of RCTs.

Background Quality improvement collaboratives (QIC) have proliferated internationally, but there is little empirical evidence for their effectiveness. Method We searched Medline, Embase, CINAHL, ...

Correspondence to Dr Natalie Taylor, Faculty of Medicine, Centre for Clinical Governance Research, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2051, Australia; natalie.taylor{at}unsw.edu.au The ...