Background Healthcare-associated infections due to multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) remain a high priority patient ...

The clinical microsystem puts medical error and harm reduction into the broader context of safety and quality of care by providing a framework to assess and evaluate ...

Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Associates in Process Improvement, Austin, Texas, USA Correspondence to Lloyd P Provost, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Associates in Process Improvement, ...

3 Department of Surgery, University of Chicago SImulation Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA Correspondence to Dr Jeanne M Farnan, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, 5841 S Maryland Ave, MC ...

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, ...

5 Director of the Centre for Research in Evidence-based Practice, Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Bond University, Headington, UK Correspondence to Professor Mary Dixon-Woods, Department of ...

Introduction Health systems globally and within the USA have introduced nursing home pay-for-performance (P4P) programmes in response to the need for improved nursing home quality. Central to the ...

The role and value of theory in improvement work in healthcare has been seriously underrecognised. We join others in proposing that more informed use of theory can strengthen improvement programmes ...

Background Those working in healthcare today are challenged more than ever before to quickly and efficiently learn from data to improve their services and delivery of care. There is broad agreement ...