BMJ Quality & Safety - Our Full Story 12 March 2024. Listen to Editors-in-Chief of BMJ Quality & Safety, Bryony Dean Franklin and Eric Thomas, talk about the journal's aims and scope, the …

Consulting more stakeholders would have helped: an example. Consider the case of a collaborative improvement initiative in 29 primary care centres in the USA.5 The project aimed …

Background: Internationally, there is increasing recognition of the need to collect and analyse data on patient safety incidents, to facilitate learning and develop solutions. The National Patient …

Jun 1, 2001 · Teams make up the building blocks of health care and every team—from the executive to the coal face—is composed of different professionals, ideally possessing a variety …

The medical consultation is best understood as a two-way social interaction involving interactive decision making. Game theory—a theory based on assumptions of rational choice and …

Introduction Quality improvement (QI) efforts are critical to promoting health equity and mitigating disparities in healthcare outcomes. Equity-focused QI (EF-QI) interventions address the …

Background Teamwork and communication are recognised as key contributors to safe and high-quality patient care. Interventions targeting process and relational aspects of care may …

210 Trautner˜B, BM ual Sa 20234210212 101120201 EDITORIAL 1Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness, and Safety (IQuESt), Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical …

Background Those working in healthcare today are challenged more than ever before to quickly and efficiently learn from data to improve their services and delivery of care. There is broad …

Introduction. Meaningful evaluation has an essential role in the work of improving healthcare, especially in enabling learning to be shared.1 Evaluations typically seek to identify the aims of …