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.bmj9d
Global perspectives on opioid use: shifting the conversation from deprescribing to quality use of medicines
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qualitysafety.bmj11d
From insight to action: tackling underperformance in health professionals
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qualitysafety.bmj12d
Experiences with diagnostic delay among underserved racial and ethnic patients: a systematic review of the qualitative literature
Objective Diagnostic delay is a pervasive patient safety problem that disproportionately affects historically underserved populations. We aim to systematically examine and synthesise published ...
qualitysafety.bmj21h
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.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.bmj13d
Patient-held medical records for patients with chronic disease: a systematic review
Objectives To determine whether in patients with chronic disease a patient-held medical record (PHR), compared to usual care, improves clinical care, patient outcomes or satisfaction. Design ...
qualitysafety.bmj2d
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 ...
qualitysafety.bmj3d
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.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.bmj8d
Ten challenges in improving quality in healthcare: lessons from the Health Foundation's programme evaluations and relevant literature
Social Science Applied to Healthcare Improvement Research Group, Department of Health Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK Correspondence to Professor Mary Dixon-Woods, ...