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

6 German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), partner site Hamburg/Kiel/Luebeck, Germany Background Patient-reported experience measures (PREMs) are valuable tools to evaluate ...

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 ...

BMJ Quality & Safety - Our Full Story 12 March 2024 Listen to Editors-in-Chief of BMJ Quality & Safety, Bryony Dean Franklin and Eric Thomas, talk about the journal's aims and scope, the advice they ...

Introduction: The frequency of adverse events in the operating theatre has been linked to the quality of teamwork and communication. Developing suitable measures of teamwork may play a role in ...

In 2005, draft guidelines were published for reporting studies of quality improvement interventions as the initial step in a consensus process for development of a more definitive version. This ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Department of Social Psychology, London School of Economics, London, UK Correspondence to Dr Tom Reader, Department of Social Psychology, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, ...

3 Consultant Specialist, Australian Patient Safety Foundation; Visiting Research Fellow, University of Adelaide and Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia 4 Senior Staff ...