Background Given the emphasis on promoting inclusive policies, we investigated the relationship between US hospitals’ ...

Knowing what you are doing’ is a simple, but elemental value for any (care) professional. Acknowledging that treatments in ...

Objectives: To assess patients’ adherence to new medication for a chronic condition (and whether non-adherence was intentional), patients’ problems with their medication, and their further information ...

Patients, clinicians and managers all want to be reassured that their healthcare organisation is safe. But there is no consensus about what we mean when we ask whether a healthcare organisation is ...

Background Children represent fewer than 10% of emergency medical services (EMS) encounters in the USA. We evaluated whether agency-level paediatric volume is associated with the quality of ...

Results of a healthcare transition learning collaborative for emerging adults with sickle cell disease: the ST3P-UP study transition quality improvement collaborative ...

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Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Associates in Process Improvement, Austin, Texas, USA Correspondence to Lloyd P Provost, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Associates in Process Improvement, ...

Introduction Patients are increasingly being thought of as central to patient safety. A small but growing body of work suggests that patients may have a role in reporting patient safety problems ...

Background Limited data exist regarding adverse drug events (ADEs) in the outpatient setting. The objective of this study was to determine the incidence, severity, and preventability of ADEs in the ...