Improvement (defined broadly as purposive efforts to secure positive change) has become an increasingly important activity and field of inquiry within healthcare. This article offers an overview of ...

While the body of evidence-based healthcare interventions grows, the ability of health systems to deliver these interventions effectively and efficiently lags behind. Quality improvement approaches, ...

Correspondence to Dr Daren K Heyland, Medicine and Community Health and Epidemiology, Queen's University, Kingston General Hospital, Angada 4, 76 Stuart St, Kingston, ON, Canada K7L 2V7; ...

Background Pharmacists’ completion of medication reconciliation in the community after hospital discharge is intended to reduce harm due to prescribed or omitted medication and increase healthcare ...

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, ...

Correspondence to Aili V Langford, Faculty of Medicine and Health, School of Pharmacy, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2790, Australia; aili.langford{at}sydney.edu.au Background Chronic ...

Centre for Quality of Care Research (WOK), University Medical Centre Nijmegen, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands Dr M E J L Hulscher, Centre for Quality of Care Research (WOK), University Medical ...

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Objective Hospital care comprises nearly a third of US healthcare expenditures. Fifteen to 20 per cent of this spending is considered to be potentially preventable. Risk prediction models have ...

Correspondence to Dr Chuenjid Kongkaew, Centre for Safety and Quality in Health, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Department of Pharmacy Practice, Naresuan University, Muang 65000, Thailand; ...

Methods Medline and EMBASE were searched for studies on intravenous medicines. The error rates of each stage were extracted. These, expert estimates, and error rates ...

1 University of Antwerp, Vaccine & Infectious Disease Institute (VAXINFECTIO), Laboratory of Medical Microbiology, Antwerp, Belgium 2 University of Antwerp, Vaccine & Infectious Disease Institute ...