Background Hospital incident reporting and patient concerns systems are widely used to detect and respond to patient harm.

Healthcare managers, clinical researchers and individual patients (and their physicians) manage variation differently to achieve different ends. First, managers are primarily concerned with the ...

In 2005, draft guidelines were published for reporting studies of quality improvement interventions as the initial step in a consensus process for development of a more definitive version. This ...

Correspondence to Dr Alan J Card, Evidence-Based Health Solutions, LLC, PO Box 62, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA; alan.j.card{at}gmail.com ‘The Problem with…’ series covers controversial topics related to ...

University of Missouri Health System, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri, USA Correspondence to S D Scott, Office of Clinical Effectiveness, University of Missouri Health System, One ...

Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics (LIME), Medical Management Centre (MMC), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden Correspondence to Susanne Ullström, Department of Learning, ...

Background Developing and updating high-quality guidelines requires substantial time and resources. To reduce duplication of effort and enhance efficiency, we developed a process for guideline ...

1 National Nursing Research Unit, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, King's College London, London, UK 2 Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, King's College London, ...

Correspondence to Professor Bryony Dean Franklin, Centre for Medication Safety and Service Quality, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust/UCL School of Pharmacy, London, W6 8RF, UK; bryony.franklin{at ...

Correspondence to Professor Paul Batalden, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Lebanon, NH 03766, USA; paul.batalden{at}gmail.com Our interactions during the Colloquium ...

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1 UT - Memorial Hermann Center for Healthcare Quality & Safety, University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston, Texas, USA 2 Houston VA Health Services Research and Development Center ...