Importance Patient safety and systems integration (PSSI) simulations help uncover hazards that jeopardise patient safety. Using direct observation, video analysis and systems-focused debriefing, they ...
Background In situ simulation (ISS) has seen broad use in academic emergency medicine (EM). Studies with limited clinical data suggest a dual paradigm model to assess the efficacy of these educational ...
Background Low-value practices, defined as tests or treatments that are used in practice despite not being supported by evidence, account for 20%–30% of healthcare expenditure; moreover, some ...
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Importance Quality improvement efforts on general medical wards are often driven by organisational or clinician priorities, and little is known about patient or caregiver priorities. Objective To ...
Correspondence to Pernilla Dillner, Department of Women's and Children's Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm 171 77, Sweden; pernilla.dillner{at}ki.se Background Adverse events (AEs) cause ...
Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) were originally introduced to primary care as screening instruments to assist primary care practitioners to diagnose and manage depression, on the assumption that ...
Background Bedside rounds (BR) have been proposed as an ideal method to promote patient-centred hospital care, but there is substantial variation in their implementation and effects. Our objectives ...
Correspondence to Dr Chuenjid Kongkaew, Centre for Safety and Quality in Health, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Department of Pharmacy Practice, Naresuan University, Muang 65000, Thailand; ...
Objective To determine how frequently 10 low-value services highlighted by Choosing Wisely are done and what factors influence their provision. Methods This is a retrospective cohort study using ...
Correspondence to Kelsey Chalmers, School of Public Health, Menzies Centre for Health Policy, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia; kelsey.chalmers{at}sydney.edu.au Low-value ...
Background Respiratory rate (RR) is an independent predictor of adverse outcomes and an integral component of many risk prediction scores for hospitalised adults. Yet, it is unclear if RR is recorded ...
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