qualitysafety.bmj6d
‘We listened and supported and depended on each other’: a qualitative study of how leadership influences implementation of QI interventions
Background There is growing recognition in the literature of the ‘Herculean’ efforts required to bring about change in healthcare processes and systems. Leadership is recognised as a critical lever ...
qualitysafety.bmj11d
Global perspectives on opioid use: shifting the conversation from deprescribing to quality use of medicines
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qualitysafety.bmj13d
From insight to action: tackling underperformance in health professionals
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qualitysafety.bmj14d
Experiences with diagnostic delay among underserved racial and ethnic patients: a systematic review of the qualitative literature
Objective Diagnostic delay is a pervasive patient safety problem that disproportionately affects historically underserved populations. We aim to systematically examine and synthesise published ...
qualitysafety.bmj2d
Development of an audit instrument for nursing care plans in the patient record
Objectives—To develop, validate, and test the reliability of an audit instrument that measures the extent to which patient records describe important aspects of nursing care. Material—Twenty records ...
qualitysafety.bmj4d
Patients’ problems with new medication for chronic conditions
Objectives: To assess patients’ adherence to new medication for a chronic condition (and whether non-adherence was intentional), patients’ problems with their medication, and their further information ...
qualitysafety.bmj7d
Core competencies for patient safety research: a cornerstone for global capacity strengthening
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 ...
qualitysafety.bmj11d
Lessons from the Australian Patient Safety Foundation: setting up a national patient safety surveillance system—is this the right model?
The evolution of the concepts and processes underpinning the Australian Patient Safety Foundation's systems over the last 15 years are traced. An ideal system should have the following attributes: an ...
qualitysafety.bmj6d
Optimal search filters for detecting quality improvement studies in Medline
Correspondence to Professor R Brian Haynes, Health Information Research Unit, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, CRL 133, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1, Canada; bhaynes{at}mcmaster.ca Background ...
qualitysafety.bmj7d
National quality campaigns: who benefits?
Background The use of national quality campaigns to foster evidence-based hospital practices is increasing. Because campaigns typically do not limit access to their resources, they may influence ...
qualitysafety.bmj5d
The hazards of hospitalization
Correspondence to: E M Schimmel, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, and the Grace-New Haven Community Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut, USA The occurrence of hospital ...
qualitysafety.bmj7d
Involvement of parents in critical incidents in a neonatal–paediatric intensive care unit
Department of Intensive Care and Neonatology, University Children’s Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland Correspondence to Dr Bernhard Frey, Department of Intensive Care and Neonatology, University ...