1 Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA 2 Division of General Internal Medicine, Kyoto University Hospital, Kyoto, Japan 3 Harvard ...

Correspondence to Dr Alan J Card, Evidence-Based Health Solutions, LLC, PO Box 62, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA; alan.j.card{at}gmail.com ‘The Problem with…’ series covers controversial topics related to ...

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, ...

1 White River Junction VA, Community and Family Medicine, and Medicine, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, White River Junction, Vermont, USA 2 University of Toronto, Centre for Quality ...

Objective To contextualise the degree of harm that comes from unsafe medical care compared with individual health conditions using the global burden of disease (GBD), a metric to determine how much ...

1 Division of Hospital Medicine, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA 2 James M. Anderson Center for Health Systems Excellence, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical ...

1 Department of Health Policy & Management and Associate Dean, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA 2 Teamwork and Simulation, Fairview Health Services, ...

1 Division of General Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 2 Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public ...

BMJ Quality & Safety invites submissions to a topic collection on Patient Safety in Maternal and Child Health. Submissions must convey information that will help a wide range of international readers ...

Background Risk aversion among junior doctors that manifests as greater intervention (ordering of tests, diagnostic procedures and so on) has been proposed as one of the possible causes for increased ...

Introduction Efforts to understand interruptions now span much of the last decade and a half. Often thought to negatively impact patient safety, some now acknowledge that interruptions may be ...

Chronic conditions are increasingly the primary concern of healthcare systems throughout the world. In response to this challenge, the World Health Organization has joined with the MacColl Institute ...