qualitysafety.bmj1d
Reduced morbidity for elderly patients with a hip fracture after implementation of a perioperative evidence-based clinical pathway
Background: Hip fractures, common in the elderly population, result in significant morbidity and mortality. A study was undertaken to determine how an evidence based clinical pathway (CP) for ...
qualitysafety.bmj3d
Patients’ problems with new medication for chronic conditions
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 ...
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The hazards of hospitalization
Correspondence to: E M Schimmel, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, and the Grace-New Haven Community Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut, USA The occurrence of hospital ...
qualitysafety.bmj4d
‘We listened and supported and depended on each other’: a qualitative study of how leadership influences implementation of QI interventions
Background There is growing recognition in the literature of the ‘Herculean’ efforts required to bring about change in healthcare processes and systems. Leadership is recognised as a critical lever ...
qualitysafety.bmj5d
Implementing electronic patient-reported outcomes measurements: challenges and success factors
Determining how to collect and use patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) continues to be an area of discussion, and in some cases frustration.1–5 Gaining a greater depth of knowledge concerning a ...
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Optimal search filters for detecting quality improvement studies in Medline
Correspondence to Professor R Brian Haynes, Health Information Research Unit, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, CRL 133, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1, Canada; bhaynes{at}mcmaster.ca Background ...
qualitysafety.bmj6d
National quality campaigns: who benefits?
Background The use of national quality campaigns to foster evidence-based hospital practices is increasing. Because campaigns typically do not limit access to their resources, they may influence ...
qualitysafety.bmj6d
Core competencies for patient safety research: a cornerstone for global capacity strengthening
5 Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 6 Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins ...
qualitysafety.bmj9d
Perceived causes of prescribing errors by junior doctors in hospital inpatients: a study from the PROTECT programme
9 Clinical Pharmacology Unit, University of Edinburgh, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK 10 Centre of Academic Primary Care, Division of Applied Health Sciences, University of Aberdeen, ...
qualitysafety.bmj9d
A systematic review of behavioural marker systems in healthcare: what do we know about their attributes, validity and application?
Correspondence to Dr Michael A Rosen, Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, and Department of Anesthesiology & Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 750 ...
qualitysafety.bmj9d
Lessons from the Australian Patient Safety Foundation: setting up a national patient safety surveillance system—is this the right model?
The evolution of the concepts and processes underpinning the Australian Patient Safety Foundation's systems over the last 15 years are traced. An ideal system should have the following attributes: an ...