qualitysafety.bmj7d
‘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.bmj12d
Global perspectives on opioid use: shifting the conversation from deprescribing to quality use of medicines
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qualitysafety.bmj14d
From insight to action: tackling underperformance in health professionals
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qualitysafety.bmj2d
Understanding risk and lessons for clinical risk communication about treatment preferences
This paper defines risk and its component elements and describes where clinical practice may be starting from in terms of what is reported in the literature about understanding risks and the ...
qualitysafety.bmj13d
The quality of clinical practice guidelines over the last two decades: a systematic review of guideline appraisal studies
6 Dutch Institute for Healthcare Improvement CBO, Utrecht, The Netherlands 7 Scientific Institute for Quality of Healthcare (IQ healthcare), Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The ...
qualitysafety.bmj9d
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.bmj5d
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.bmj12d
Lessons from the Australian Patient Safety Foundation: setting up a national patient safety surveillance system—is this the right model?
The evolution of the concepts and processes underpinning the Australian Patient Safety Foundation's systems over the last 15 years are traced. An ideal system should have the following attributes: an ...
qualitysafety.bmj8d
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.bmj7d
Implementing electronic patient-reported outcomes measurements: challenges and success factors
Determining how to collect and use patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) continues to be an area of discussion, and in some cases frustration.1–5 Gaining a greater depth of knowledge concerning a ...
qualitysafety.bmj3d
Development of an audit instrument for nursing care plans in the patient record
Objectives—To develop, validate, and test the reliability of an audit instrument that measures the extent to which patient records describe important aspects of nursing care. Material—Twenty records ...
qualitysafety.bmj6d
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 ...