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

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

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 ...

The clinical microsystem puts medical error and harm reduction into the broader context of safety and quality of care by providing a framework to assess and evaluate ...

Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Case School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106-4945, USA Correspondence to: Professor D Neuhauser Department of ...

Institute and Outpatient Clinic for Occupational, Social, and Environmental Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany Correspondence to Matthias Weigl, Institute and Outpatient ...

Background Although well-established principles exist for improving the timeliness and efficiency of care, many organisations struggle to achieve more than small-scale, localised gains. Where care ...

Correspondence to Professor Jeffrey Braithwaite, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia; jeffrey.braithwaite{at}mq.edu.au Background Bronchiolitis ...

Department of General Practice and Primary Care, School of Medicine, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Correspondence to: Dr S A Buetow, Department of General Practice and Primary Care, ...

Correspondence to Dr Edward Etchells, Department of Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Centre for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S, Canada; ...

1 Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London WC1 7HT, UK 2 Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London ...

1 Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA 2 Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA 8 Pediatric Critical Care, ...