Background Little is known about the incidence or significance of diagnostic error in the inpatient setting. We used a malpractice claims database to examine ...

2 Department of Health Sciences, University of York, York, UK 3 Department of Health Sciences, University of York and Hull York Medical School, York, UK 4 Department of Health Sciences, University of ...

Background Quality improvement collaboratives (QIC) have proliferated internationally, but there is little empirical evidence for their effectiveness. Method We searched Medline, Embase, CINAHL, ...

Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, CLARITY Research Group, Clinical Advancement through Research and Information Translation, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada ...

Evaluation of improvement initiatives in healthcare is essential to establishing whether interventions are effective and to understanding how and why they work in order to enable replication. Although ...

Doing ‘detective work’ to find a cancer: how are non-specific symptom pathways for cancer investigation organised, and what are the implications for safety and quality of care? A multisite qualitative ...

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Some hospital trusts and health authorities consistently outperform others on different dimensions of performance. Why? There is some evidence that “management matters”, as well as the combined ...

Background Natural hazards, such as earthquakes, pose a significant risk to both the public and healthcare professionals, jeopardising patient safety due to the disruption of healthcare systems and ...

Introduction Quality improvement (QI) is aimed at improving care. Equity is one of the six domains of healthcare quality, as defined by the Institute of Medicine. If this domain is ignored, QI ...