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To improve patient safety, surgeons can continually monitor the surgical outcomes of their patients. To this end, they can use statistical process control tools, which primarily originated in the ...

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, ...

Centre for Medication Safety and Service Quality, UCL School of Pharmacy and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK Correspondence to Monsey Chan McLeod,Centre for Medication Safety and ...

Correspondence to Professor Ken Catchpole, Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), Charleston, South Carolina 29407, USA; catchpol{at}musc.edu ...

Objectives: To conduct a multicentre study on adverse event and near miss reporting in the NHS and to explore the feasibility of creating a national system for collecting these data. Design: ...

Correspondence to Shirley M Moore, Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106-4904, USA; smm8{at}case.edu Traditionally, nurses have had a key role in ...

1 Department of Pediatrics and Children’s Research Institute, Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, WI, USA 2 Department of Family and Community Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin in ...

Background Isolation-based practices in nursing homes (NHs) differ from those in acute care. NHs must promote quality of life while preventing infection transmission. Practices used in NHs to ...

2 University of Leeds Institute of Medical Education, Leeds, UK What has gone relatively unnoticed in these recent discussions about the potential of video in the operating room is the possibilities ...

2 Bryn Mawr College Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research, Research Associate, Quality Research, American Board of Internal Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA 3 Executive ...