Background: In recent years, there has been a growth in the use of triage nurses to decrease general practitioner (GP) workloads and increase the efficiency of telephone triage. The actual safety of ...

To achieve continuous quality improvement “it is not enough to do your best …” Continuous improvement in health care and elsewhere is not a contentious issue—but the means by which this may be ...

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Background Despite significant advances, patient safety remains a critical public health concern. Daily huddles—discussions to identify and respond to safety risks—have been credited with enhancing ...

Background Low-value care (LVC) describes practices that persist in healthcare, despite being ineffective, inefficient or causing harm. Several determinants for the provision of LVC have been ...

In medicine, artificial intelligence (AI) research is becoming increasingly focused on applying machine learning (ML) techniques to complex problems, and so allowing computers to make predictions from ...

Objectives To provide national estimates of the number and clinical and economic burden of medication errors in the National Health Service (NHS) in England. Methods We used UK-based prevalence of ...

Effective improvement and research rely on sustained multidisciplinary collaboration, but few examples are available of centres with the broad range of disciplines and practical experience that are ...

The methods of evaluating change and improvement strategies are not well described. The design and conduct of a range of experimental and non-experimental quantitative designs are considered. Such ...

Background Clinical guidelines advise GPs in England which patients warrant an urgent referral for suspected cancer. This study assessed how often GPs follow the guidelines, whether certain patients ...

Background Improving the quality and efficiency of healthcare is an international priority. A range of complex ward based quality initiatives have been developed over recent years, perhaps the most ...

Background Documenting an indication when prescribing antimicrobials is considered best practice; however, a better understanding of the evidence is needed to support broader implementation of this ...