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

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 ...

2 Professor of General Practice, Department of General Practice, University of Antwerp, Universiteitsplein 1, 2610 Antwerp, Belgium 3 Professor of Quality in Health Care, Clinical Governance Research ...

The quality of care anyone receives in the USA is highly dependent on where they receive care. Prior research has found that on average, risk-adjusted mortality differences between top-decile and ...

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Many quality improvement (QI) projects often fail to achieve their goals. Some fail for technical reasons, such as invalid measures, inattention to key contextual factors that determine the ...

Department of Primary Care and Population Sciences, University College London, London, UK Correspondence to: Professor T Greenhalgh Department of Primary Care and Population Sciences, University ...

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 ...