Reducing harm in hospital care using Human Factors and Quality Improvement approaches has proved harder than expected: better ...

Introduction Many patient safety practices are only partly established in routine clinical care, despite extensive quality improvement efforts. Implementation science can offer insights into how ...

Centre for Medication Safety and Service Quality, UCL School of Pharmacy and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK Correspondence to Monsey Chan McLeod,Centre for Medication Safety and ...

Introduction Deprescribing (medication dose reduction or cessation) is an integral component of appropriate prescribing. The extent to which deprescribing recommendations are included in clinical ...

Background Hospital-onset bacteraemia and fungaemia (HOB) is being explored as a surveillance and quality metric. The objectives of the current study were to determine sources and preventability of ...

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Background Modern medical care requires numerous patient handovers/handoffs. Handover error is recognised as a potential hazard in patient care, and the information ...

1 Centre for Medication Safety and Service Quality, UCL School of Pharmacy and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK 2 Department of Practice and Policy, UCL School of Pharmacy, London, UK ...

1 Health Informatics Research & Evaluation Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia 2 Centre for Health Informatics, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Faculty ...

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 ...