Background The optimal performance of doctors is critical to delivering high-quality, safe healthcare. However, 6–12% of ...

Background The World Health Organization Surgical Safety Checklist (WHO-SSC) is a global tool designed to enhance teamwork ...

Karolina Kogut, Nobhojit Roy, Mary E. Brindle The WHO Surgical Safety Checklist (SSC) has been a cornerstone of surgical ...

Background Reducing hospitalisations in heart failure (HF) requires organisational models for rapid optimisation, education and structured follow-up. Evidence on complex programmes in outermost or ...

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

1 Division of Neonatology, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA 2 Systems and Information Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA 3 ...

The concept of resilience, or Safety-II, is finding its way into national patient safety policies. In the Netherlands, for example, hospital, professional and patient federations have named Safety-II ...

Background Patient safety training of healthcare professionals is a new area of education. Assessment of the pertinent competencies should be a part of this education. This review aims to identify the ...

1 Division of Hospital Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, The James M. Anderson Center for Health Systems Excellence, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA 2 The James ...

Correspondence to Martin Bromiley, Clinical Human Factors Group, The Health Foundation, 90 Long Acre, London WC2E 9RA, UK; info{at}chfg.org If you wish to reuse any ...

The Centre for Health Services Research, School of Medicine, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia Correspondence to Prof Michael Buist, The Centre for Health Services Research, School ...