Background Creating and sustaining an institutional climate conducive to patient and health worker safety is a critical ...

Background Healthcare-associated infections due to multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) remain a high priority patient ...

Background Healthcare staff adapt to challenges faced when delivering healthcare by using workarounds. Sometimes, safety ...

5 Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 6 Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins ...

1 Centre for Quality of Care Research (WOK) 117, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands 2 Department of Clinical Pharmacy, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, ...

Background There is an increasing number of quality indicators being reported publicly with aim to improve the transparency on hospital care quality. However, they are little used by patients.

University Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, Oxford, UK. OBJECTIVES: To estimate the proportion of psychiatric inpatients receiving primary interventions based on randomised controlled ...

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 ...

Background Isolation-based practices in nursing homes (NHs) differ from those in acute care. NHs must promote quality of life while preventing infection transmission. Practices used in NHs to ...

Objectives: A problem can arise when a performance indicator shows substantially more variability than would be expected by chance alone, since ignoring such “over-dispersion” could lead to a large ...