Background Voluntary assisted dying (VAD) in Victoria, Australia, is governed by a stringent legislative framework, designed ...

Background Risk aversion among junior doctors that manifests as greater intervention (ordering of tests, diagnostic procedures and so on) has been proposed as one of the possible causes for increased ...

Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics (LIME), Medical Management Centre (MMC), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden Correspondence to Susanne Ullström, Department of Learning, ...

3 Pharmacy Department, Queens Medical Centre, University Hospital, Nottingham NG7 2UH, UK Correspondence to: Mrs R L Howard, Division of Primary Care, School of Community Health Sciences, University ...

Background Healthcare leaders look to high-reliability organisations (HROs) for strategies to improve safety, despite questions about how to translate these strategies into practice. Weick and ...

1 The Research Institute, The Norwegian Medical Association, P O B 1152 Sentrum, N-0107 Oslo and Institute of Health Management and Health Economics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway 2 ...

Correspondence to Dr Bianca Wiering, University of Exeter Medical School, College of Medicine and Health, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK; b.wiering{at}exeter.ac.uk Background Clinical guidelines ...

Correspondence to Mrs Justine Staal, Institute of Medical Education Research Rotterdam, Erasmus Medical Center, 3015 GD Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands; j.staal{at}erasmusmc.nl Background ...

Background Temporal structuring is determined by practices and social norms and affects the quality and timing of care. In this case study of hyperacute stroke wards which provide initial stroke ...

Correspondence to Dr Kun-Hsing Yu, Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Kun-Hsing_Yu{at}hms.harvard.edu; Professor Isaac S Kohane, Biomedical Informatics, Harvard ...

Background Medicines optimisation is a key role for hospital pharmacists, but with ever-increasing demands on services, there is a need to increase efficiency while maintaining patient safety.

3 Consultant Specialist, Australian Patient Safety Foundation; Visiting Research Fellow, University of Adelaide and Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia 4 Senior Staff ...