This May, the World Health Assembly (WHA) will vote on re-establishing a mandate for the WHO to address the health ...

Objective Quality improvement (QI) practices and scholarship are increasingly concerned with environmental sustainability ...

Correspondence to Peter F Kemper, Department of Public and Occupational Health, EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Center, Van de Boechorststraat 7, Amsterdam 1081 BT, ...

‘We need bold, fundamental change that gets at the roots of the burnout crisis.’- US Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy, MD, MBA. The key is understanding what is suboptimal. Their main findings from 124 ...

Objectives Many hospitals use fall prevention alarms, despite the limited evidence of effectiveness. The objectives of this study were (1) to identify, conceptualise and select strategies to ...

The objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of quality improvement (QI) and patient safety initiatives and data disaggregation on racial disparities in severe maternal morbidity from ...

Introduction Barcode medication administration (BCMA) can, if poorly implemented, cause disrupted workflow, increased workload and cause medication errors. Further exploration is needed of the causes ...

Correspondence to Dr Karen B Born, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5T3M6, Canada; karen.born{at}utoronto.ca There are growing calls for ...

Correspondence to: Dr Johan Thor Medical Management Centre, Berzelius väg 3, 5th floor, Karolinska Institutet, S-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden; johan.thor{at}ki.se Objective: To systematically review the ...

One major difference between historical and nonhistorical judgment is that the historical judge typically knows how things turned out. In Experiment 1, receipt of such outcome knowledge was found to ...

Introduction Quality improvement (QI) efforts are critical to promoting health equity and mitigating disparities in healthcare outcomes. Equity-focused QI (EF-QI) interventions address the unique ...

Correspondence to Professor David Reeves, NIHR School for Primary Care Research, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, The University of Manchester Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, ...