BD, Medtronic and Abbott were among the top 10 device companies with the highest number of late reports to the FDA, the study ...

In this issue of the journal, the article ‘Developing the Allied Health Professionals workforce within mental health, learning disability, and autism inpatient services: Rapid review of learning from ...

The urgent need to expand the ability of health professionals to improve the quality and safety of patient care in the USA has been well documented. Yet the current methods of teaching quality and ...

We believe that high quality anatomy education depends not on any single type ... embalming chemicals such as formaldehyde, and rigorous safety protocols.1 Institutions often lack the financial and ...

Patient safety has become an international priority with major research programmes being carried out in the USA, UK, and elsewhere. The challenge is how to organize research efforts that will produce ...

Tensions surrounding professional responsibility and accountability (as opposed to institutional accountability) and the quality and safety “no blame” approach within the health system prevent health ...

This paper reviews evidence which shows that it has effects, not only on financial management, but on the quality of care provided. Some theories of leadership are discussed, primarily in terms of how ...

An example of an analysis of a number of rare events which led to a definitive intervention at a national level is presented in a paper published in this issue of Quality and Safety in Health Care. 17 ...

uvt.nl Background In multisite trials evaluating a complex quality improvement (QI) strategy the ‘same’ intervention may be implemented and adopted in different ways. Therefore, in this study we ...

Aim To describe the run chart—an analytical tool commonly used by professionals in quality improvement but underutilised in healthcare. Methods A standard approach to the construction, use and ...

Correspondence to Dr Bharat Kumar, The University of Iowa Roy J and Lucille A Carver College of Medicine, Iowa, IA 52242, USA; bharat-kumar{at}Uiowa.edu For the most part, the increased emphasis of ...