Objectives To document the burden of in-hospital falls and fractures, and to identify factors that may increase the risk of these events. Design A retrospective cohort analysis Setting The study was ...

Background With the introduction of Computerised Physician Order Entry (CPOE) in routine hospital care, a great deal of effort has been put into refining Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS) to ...

Quality indicators are ubiquitous in healthcare and serve a variety of purposes for many different stakeholders. Few would question the value of monitoring the quality of care, but the increasing ...

In Plato's Theaetetus , knowledge is defined as the intersection of truth and belief, where knowledge cannot be claimed if something is true but not believed or believed but not true. Using an example ...

Footnotes. Contributors JLS had full access to all of the data in the study and takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis. Concept and design: JLS, JS, ...

To achieve continuous quality improvement “it is not enough to do your best …” Continuous improvement in health care and elsewhere is not a contentious issue—but the means by which this may be ...

Clear evidence for a weekend effect was first demonstrated by Bell and Redelmeier1 who examined 3.8 million emergency admissions between 1988 and 1997 in an acute care hospital in Ontario. They had ...

The value of research in any topic area turns on its validity. Patient safety research has revealed—or, at least, given renewed urgency to—a raft of methodological issues. The meaning and thus the ...

Striving for Equity in the Quality and Safety of Patient Care. CONTENT. Latest content; Current issue; Archive; Browse by collection; Most read articles ...

Background The 2-week wait referral pathway for suspected colorectal cancer was introduced in England to improve time from referral from a general practitioner (GP) to diagnosis and treatment.

Objective To evaluate the feasibility of a locally implemented incident-reporting procedure (IRP) in primary healthcare centres after 1 year. Setting and participants Five primary healthcare centres ...

Background: There is growing recognition of patients’ contributions to setting objectives for their own care, improving health outcomes and evaluating care. Objective: To quantify the extent to which ...