Correspondence to Dr Grace C Huang, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA 02215, USA; ghuang{at}bidmc.harvard.edu Background Diagnostic errors result in preventable ...
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 ...
Correspondence to Dr Pascale Carayon, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Wisconsin Institute for Healthcare Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA; ...
Determining how to collect and use patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) continues to be an area of discussion, and in some cases frustration.1–5 Gaining a greater depth of knowledge concerning a ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Purpose of study Initiatives to standardise hospital paper-based prescription charts are underway in various countries in an effort to reduce prescribing errors. The ...
9 Clinical Pharmacology Unit, University of Edinburgh, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK 10 Centre of Academic Primary Care, Division of Applied Health Sciences, University of Aberdeen, ...