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, ...

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

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.

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

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 ...

School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK Correspondence to Dr Denham Phipps, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Manchester, ...

Leiden University Medical Centre, Medical Decision Making, J10-S, Leiden, The Netherlands Correspondence to Dr Perla J Marang-van de Mheen, Leiden University Medical Centre, Medical Decision Making, ...

1 The University of Texas Center of Excellence for Patient Safety Research and Practice, Houston, Texas, USA 2 The University of Texas Houston Medical School, Department of Medicine, Division of ...

Background: In a qualitative study of paramedics’ attitudes to pre-hospital thrombolysis (PHT), the government target that emergency calls should receive a response within 8 minutes emerged as a key ...

Background Search engines often serve as a primary resource for patients to obtain drug information. However, the search engine market is rapidly changing due to the introduction of artificial ...

Correspondence to Dr Andrew J Graham, Departments of Surgery and Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 2T9, Canada; ...