BMJ Quality & Safety - Our Full Story 12 March 2024 Listen to Editors-in-Chief of BMJ Quality & Safety, Bryony Dean Franklin and Eric Thomas, talk about the journal's aims and scope, the advice they ...

Royal College of Nursing Institute, Royal College of Nursing, London, UK. The argument put forward in this paper is that successful implementation of research into practice is a function of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

More than 20 years since a landmark study1 documented hospitalised patients were more likely to die when their nurse cared for too many patients at a time, hundreds of rigorously conducted studies in ...

Introduction The initial medication adherence (IMA) intervention aims to improve adherence to cardiovascular disease (CVD) and diabetes treatments in primary care (PC) through standardised shared ...

2 Centre of Emergency Medicine Research, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark 3 Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark Background To achieve a high level of ...

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

Dr K Walshe, senior research fellow, Health Services Management Centre, University of Birmingham, Park House, 40 Edgbaston Park Road, Birmingham B15 2RT, UK Adverse events—“instances which indicate or ...

Objective To contextualise the degree of harm that comes from unsafe medical care compared with individual health conditions using the global burden of disease (GBD), a metric to determine how much ...

Quality Literature Program, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice; Office of Research and Innovation in Medical Education, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, ...