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 ...

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 ...

Background While the concept of collaboration is highly touted in the literature, most descriptions of effective collaboration highlight formal collaborative events; largely ignored are the informal ...

4 Department of Emergency Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA 5 Department of Internal Medicine, Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston ...

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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 ...

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, ...

Correspondence to Dr Joshua M Pevnick, Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Health System, 8700 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, California 90048, USA; ...

Background Effective communication is critical for patient safety. One potential threat to communication in the operating room is incivility. Although examined in other industries, little has been ...

8 Office of Graduate Medical Education, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA Correspondence to Dr William Martinez, Division of General Internal Medicine, Vanderbilt ...