Background Voluntary assisted dying (VAD) in Victoria, Australia, is governed by a stringent legislative framework, designed ...

More than 20 years since a landmark study1 documented hospitalised patients were more likely to die when their nurse cared for too many patients at a time, hundreds of rigorously conducted studies in ...

The ubiquitous nature of hindsight bias is a cause for concern for those engaged in investigations and retrospective analysis of medical error. Hindsight does not ...

Correspondence to Dr Rishi Sikka, Advocate Health Care, 3075 Highland Avenue, Suite 600, Downers Grove, Il 60515, USA; rishi.sikka{at}advocatehealth.com In 2008, Donald Berwick and colleagues provided ...

3 Pharmacy Department, Queens Medical Centre, University Hospital, Nottingham NG7 2UH, UK Correspondence to: Mrs R L Howard, Division of Primary Care, School of Community Health Sciences, University ...

Background Overuse of lumbar imaging is common in the emergency department (ED). Few trials have examined interventions to address this. We evaluated the effectiveness of a multifaceted intervention ...

1 The Research Institute, The Norwegian Medical Association, P O B 1152 Sentrum, N-0107 Oslo and Institute of Health Management and Health Economics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway 2 ...

2 National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC) for North-West London, London, UK Correspondence to Michael J Taylor, Academic ...

1 Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 2 Department of Emergency Medicine, University of British Columbia, ...

3 Consultant Specialist, Australian Patient Safety Foundation; Visiting Research Fellow, University of Adelaide and Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia 4 Senior Staff ...

Background Order sets are widely used tools in the electronic health record (EHR) for improving healthcare quality. However, there is limited insight into how well they facilitate clinician workflow.

Objective Financial incentives are often applied to motivate desirable performance across organisations in healthcare systems. In the 2016/2017 financial year, the National Health Service (NHS) in ...