5 Director of the Centre for Research in Evidence-based Practice, Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Bond University, Headington, UK Correspondence to Professor Mary Dixon-Woods, Department of ...

1 Yale School of Public Health, Division of Health Policy and Administration, and Global Health Leadership Institute, New Haven, Connecticut, USA 2 Yale School of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, New ...

‘The Problem with…’ series covers controversial topics related to efforts to improve healthcare quality, including widely recommended but deceptively difficult strategies for improvement and pervasive ...

Correspondence to Dr Cecilia Vindrola-Padros, Department of Applied Health Research, University College London, 1-19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 7HB, UK; c.vindrola{at}ucl.ac.uk The use of embedded ...

Investigations of accidents in a number of hazardous domains suggest that a cluster of organisational pathologies—the “vulnerable system syndrome” (VSS)—render some systems more liable to adverse ...

1 School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Manchester, UK 2 School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester, UK Correspondence to: Dr D M Ashcroft Senior Clinical ...

2 VA National Center for Patient Safety, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA 3 VA National Center for Patient Safety Field Office, White River Junction, Vermont, USA Background The Veterans Health Administration ...

Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Case School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA Correspondence to: Professor D Neuhauser Department of Epidemiology and ...

Correspondence to Dr Stephanie Tierney, University of Warwick Warwick Medical School, Warwick Medical School, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK; stephanie.tierney{at}warwick.ac.uk Nursing, in particular, has been ...

Department of General Practice and Primary Care, School of Medicine, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Correspondence to: Dr S A Buetow, Department of General Practice and Primary Care, ...

Healthcare institutions continue to face challenges in providing safe patient care in increasingly complex organisational and regulatory environments while striving to maintain financial viability.

Problem: Rising demand and increasing waiting times for upper gastrointestinal endoscopy (gastroscopy). Design: Quality improvement study with pre- and post-intervention data collection. Setting: ...