Correspondence to Dr Stephanie Tierney, University of Warwick Warwick Medical School, Warwick Medical School, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK; stephanie.tierney{at}warwick.ac.uk Nursing, in particular, has been ...
Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA Correspondence to: Associate Professor P J Pronovost Department of Anaesthesiology and ...
Traditional quality control methods identify “variation” as the enemy. However, the control of variation by itself can never achieve the remarkably low non-conformance rates of world class quality ...
Background Experience-based codesign (EBCD) is an approach to health service design that engages patients and healthcare staff in partnership to develop and improve health services or pathways of care ...
1 Radboud Univeristy Nijmegen Medical Centre, Centre for Quality of Care Reseach, Nijmegen, the Netherlands 2 University Medical Centre Utrecht, Julius Centre for Health Sciences and Primary Care, ...
To improve patient safety, surgeons can continually monitor the surgical outcomes of their patients. To this end, they can use statistical process control tools, which primarily originated in the ...
The Cognitive Technologies Laboratory, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA Correspondence to Nurit Porat, Hadassah University Medical Center, Ein Kerem, PO Box 12000, Jerusalem 91120, Israel ...
Background Hospitalist medicine was predicated on the belief that providers dedicated to inpatient care would deliver higher quality and more cost-effective care to acutely hospitalised patients. The ...
Correspondence to Professor Helen E Lester, NIHR School for Primary Care Research, University of Manchester, 7th Floor Williamson Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK; ...