Background The challenges facing guideline developers when making recommendations about diagnostic tests and strategies (DTS) are considerably different when compared to treatment recommendations.

Background Diagnostic errors cause substantial preventable harms worldwide, but rigorous estimates for total burden are lacking. We previously estimated diagnostic ...

Background Patient complaints are associated with adverse events and malpractice claims but underused in patient safety improvement. Objective To systematically evaluate the use of patient complaint ...

Objectives To systematically review the peer-reviewed literature on interruptions in healthcare settings to determine the state of the science and to identify the gaps in research. Methods Inclusion ...

Correspondence to Dr Matthew B Weinger, Anesthesiology/CRISS, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37212, USA; matt.weinger{at}vumc.org Despite numerous studies, gaps in the evidence to ...

Background Order sets are widely used tools in the electronic health record (EHR) for improving healthcare quality. However, there is limited insight into how well they facilitate clinician workflow.

Institute for Healthcare Improvement, 375 Longwood Avenue, 4th Floor, Boston, MA 02215, USA Correspondence to: D M Berwick Institute for Healthcare Improvement, 375 Longwood Avenue, 4th Floor, Boston, ...

Correspondence to Dr Robyn Clay-Williams, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, Sydney 2109, New South Wales, Australia; robyn.clay-williams{at}mq.edu.au The checklist ...

1 James M. Anderson Center for Health Systems Excellence, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA 2 Division of Hospital Medicine, James M. Anderson Center for Health ...

Correspondence to Mrs Justine Staal, Institute of Medical Education Research Rotterdam, Erasmus Medical Center, 3015 GD Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands; j.staal{at}erasmusmc.nl Background ...

Background Voluntary assisted dying (VAD) in Victoria, Australia, is governed by a stringent legislative framework, designed ...

To date, improvement in health care has relied mainly on a “top down” programme by programme approach to service change and development. This has spawned a multitude of different and often impressive ...