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What to expect when you're evaluating healthcare improvement: a

WEBEvaluation of improvement initiatives in healthcare is essential to establishing whether interventions are effective and to understanding how and why they work in …

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Sustaining quality improvement efforts: emerging principles and

WEBTo convince healthcare leadership of the need for time and resources to understand the problem, rather than to act and ‘fix the problem’, QI practitioners might …

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Safety measurement and monitoring in healthcare: a framework to …

WEBPatients, clinicians and managers all want to be reassured that their healthcare organisation is safe. But there is no consensus about what we mean when …

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Multidisciplinary teamwork: the good, bad, and everything in …

WEBTeams make up the building blocks of health care and every team—from the executive to the coal face—is composed of different professionals, ideally possessing a …

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Huddling for high reliability and situation awareness

WEBBackground Studies show that implementing huddles in healthcare can improve a variety of outcomes. Yet little is known about the mechanisms through which huddles exert their …

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Disclosing medical errors: prioritising the needs of patients and

WEBA slow but significant change has occurred in how healthcare professionals and organisations are expected to respond when something has gone wrong in a patient’s …

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Quality improvement research: understanding the science of …

WEBEssential for all who want to improve health care. Expectations of healthcare services are ever increasing and those delivering care no longer hold the monopoly of opinion on …

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Between-hospital variation in indicators of quality of care: a

WEBBackground Efforts to mitigate unwarranted variation in the quality of care require insight into the ‘level’ (eg, patient, physician, ward, hospital) at which observed …

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Promoting engagement by patients and families to reduce …

WEBIntroduction Patient-centeredness is central to healthcare. Hospitals should address patients’ unique needs to improve safety and quality. Patient engagement in healthcare, …

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Separating fact from fiction

WEBHuman factors—a science at the intersection of psychology and engineering—is dedicated to designing all aspects of a work system to support human performance and safety. …

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Priorities to improve the care for chronic conditions and

WEBObjective To set priorities to improve consultations, care structures and the healthcare system from the perspective of patients with chronic conditions, care professionals, …

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Health professional networks as a vector for improving healthcare

WEBBackground. Interest in networks as collaborating, professionalised structures continues to grow. As a post-bureaucratic form of organisation,1 networks have gained increasing …

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Healthcare Complaints Analysis Tool

WEBOVERVIEW: THE HEALTHCARE COMPLAINTS ANALYSIS TOOL (HCAT) The Healthcare Complaints Analysis Tool (HCAT) is an analytical tool for codifying and …

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Safety culture assessment: a tool for improving patient safety in

WEBSAFETY CULTURE ASSESSMENT IN HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATIONS. The Advisory Committee on the Safety of Nuclear Installations 8 provides the following definition of …

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Choosing Wisely and the climate crisis: a role for clinicians

WEBThere are growing calls for healthcare to confront it’s role in the climate crisis. Estimates suggest that carbon emissions from healthcare constitute 5% of net global emissions. To …

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The “To Err is Human” report and the patient safety literature

WEBThe Institute of Medicine (IOM) released a report in 1999 entitled “To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System”. 1 The report stated that errors cause between 44 000 and 98 …

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Time for a rebalance: psychological and emotional well-being in …

WEBThe COVID-19 pandemic shone a light on the work and needs of the healthcare workforce like never before, resulting in an increased focus of workforce well …

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Burden of serious harms from diagnostic error in the USA

WEBResults were compatible with setting-specific serious harm estimates from inpatient, emergency department and ambulatory care. The 15 dangerous diseases accounted for …

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Quality & Safety in Health Care (formerly Quality in Health …

WEBEditor David P Stevens (USA) Publisher Janet O’Flaherty Journal Manager Claire Jura Production Editor Malcolm Smith Editorial Assistant Francesca Grillo

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In the room where it happens: do physicians need feedback …

WEB184 Zabar˜S, etal J ual Saf 2229182184 1113211384 Editorial a clinical process needs to be improved. Work such as Amelung and colleagues’ provides important targets for …

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Diagnostic error in mental health: a review BMJ Quality & Safety

WEBDiagnostic errors are associated with patient harm and suboptimal outcomes. Despite national scientific efforts to advance definition, measurement and interventions for …

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BMJ improve quality of health care. It is an interdisciplinary

WEBEditor in Chief Kaveh Shojania (Canada) Mary Dixon-Woods (UK) Editor Emeritus David P Stevens (USA) Social Media Editors Joel Boggan (USA) David Metcalfe (UK) Publisher …

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