What should we do in order to improve quality and safety in medicines management? How beneficial is it to design the ...

Background Understaffing by nursing staff in hospitals is linked to patients coming to harm and dying unnecessarily. There is ...

The quality of care anyone receives in the USA is highly dependent on where they receive care. Prior research has found that ...

Background Handoffs are a weak link in the chain of clinical care of inpatients. Within-unit handoffs are increasing in ...

For patients in the intensive care unit (ICU), prolonged mechanical ventilation is associated with poor outcomes. A quality improvement (QI) initiative with the aim of reducing median time on the ...

The article by Cho et al 1 in the current issue of BMJ Quality and Safety addresses the persistent and debilitating problem ...

3 School of Medicine, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand 4 Harvard Medical School, Center for Medical Simulation, Boston, Massachusetts, United States 5 Harvard Medical School, Brigham and ...

Correspondence to Professor Ronen Rozenblum, Division of General Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02120, USA; RROZENBLUM{at}PARTNERS.ORG Social media usage has become a ...