qualitysafety.bmj2d
Investigators are human too: outcome bias and perceptions of individual culpability in patient safety incident investigations
Background Healthcare patient safety investigations inappropriately focus on individual culpability and the target of ...
qualitysafety.bmj15d
Understanding patient safety during earthquakes: a phenomenological study of disaster response
Background Natural hazards, such as earthquakes, pose a significant risk to both the public and healthcare professionals, jeopardising patient safety due to the disruption of healthcare systems and ...
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Table 3
At least one error at any stage 73.4 (54.4 to 89.7) No error made at any stage 26.6 (10.3 to 45.6) With error-checking at each stage At least one error at any stage ...
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The problem of appraising qualitative research
Qualitative research can make a valuable contribution to the study of quality and safety in health care. Sound ways of appraising qualitative research are needed, but currently there are many ...
qualitysafety.bmj2d
Assessing safety culture: guidelines and recommendations
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 ...
qualitysafety.bmj6d
Addressing the challenges of knowledge co-production in quality improvement: learning from the implementation of the researcher-in-residence model
The concept of knowledge co-production is used in health services research to describe partnerships (which can involve researchers, practitioners, managers, commissioners or service users) with the ...
qualitysafety.bmj13d
What to expect when you're evaluating healthcare improvement: a concordat approach to managing collaboration and uncomfortable realities
Evaluation of improvement initiatives in healthcare is essential to establishing whether interventions are effective and to understanding how and why they work in order to enable replication. Although ...
qualitysafety.bmj5d
Beyond “see one, do one, teach one”: toward a different training paradigm
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Quality and Safety Research Group, Baltimore, MD, USA In the process of acquiring new skills, physicians-in-training may expose patients to harm because ...
qualitysafety.bmj8d
A primer on PDSA: executing plan–do–study–act cycles in practice, not just in name
1 Centre for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Too often, however, improvement teams go through the motions of PDSA cycles without really ...
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Improving feedback on junior doctors’ prescribing errors: mixed-methods evaluation of a quality improvement project
1 Centre for Medication Safety and Service Quality, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK 2 Centre for Patient Safety and Service Quality, Imperial College London, London, UK ...
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Nurse staffing, nursing assistants and hospital mortality: retrospective longitudinal cohort study
3 National Institute for Health Research Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (NIHR CLAHRC) Wessex, Southampton, UK Objective To determine the association between daily ...
qualitysafety.bmj11d
Systems of service: reflections on the moral foundations of improvement
Providing clinical care is above all a service; in that sense, the medical profession aspires to Aristotelian phronesis, or prudence—being ‘capable of action with regard to things that are good and ...