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 ...

Setting The FDA MAUDE database, a central postmarket safety surveillance tool for US medical devices ... this change would likely improve the quality of reports in MAUDE. Additionally, the FDA could ...

Background Physicians should be engaged in quality-improvement activities to make the systems in which they work safer and more reliable. However, many physicians are still unable to contribute to ...

each of whom had considerable practical experience of conducting incident analyses in the context of wider organisational safety and quality programmes. The development process followed the following ...

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 ...

Survey data collected before, directly following and six months after each workshop measured stigma, attitudes, and legal safety and advocacy engagement ... Abortion providers, stigma and professional ...

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 ...

8 University of Texas at Houston—Memorial Hermann Center for Healthcare Quality and Safety, University of Texas Medical School, Houston, USA Background Burnout is widespread among healthcare providers ...

The Oxford Professional Practice Handbook of Quality Improvement in Healthcare1 is the latest in a series of books that will be very familiar to readers in the UK and other parts of the world. Many ...