Introduction Patients who had a stroke often confront the trade-off between timely care at nearby hospitals and potentially ...

Correspondence to Dr Matthew D Weaver, Division of Sleep and Circadian Disorders, Departments of Medicine and Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston 02115, Massachusetts, USA; mdweaver{at}bwh ...

BMJ Quality & Safety invites submissions to a topic collection on Patient Safety in Maternal and Child Health. Submissions must convey information that will help a wide range of international readers ...

Correspondence to Dr Erin R Barnett, Department of Psychiatry, Dartmouth College Geisel School of Medicine, Lebanon, NH 03755, USA; erin.r.barnett{at}dartmouth.edu Background and Objective ...

Background Children represent fewer than 10% of emergency medical services (EMS) encounters in the USA. We evaluated whether agency-level paediatric volume is associated with the quality of ...

Background Critically ill patients receive frequent routine and recurring blood tests, some of which are unnecessary. Aim To reduce unnecessary routine phlebotomy in a 30-bed tertiary medical-surgical ...

Centre for Health Systems and Safety Research, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, UNSW Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Correspondence to Professor ...

In a companion paper, we proposed that cognitive debiasing is a skill essential in developing sound clinical reasoning to mitigate the incidence of diagnostic failure. We reviewed the origins of ...

Background Problems of quality and safety persist in health systems worldwide. We conducted a large research programme to examine culture and behaviour in the English National Health Service (NHS).

1 UT - Memorial Hermann Center for Healthcare Quality & Safety, University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston, Texas, USA 2 Houston VA Health Services Research and Development Center ...

The role and value of theory in improvement work in healthcare has been seriously underrecognised. We join others in proposing that more informed use of theory can strengthen improvement programmes ...

Correspondence to Dr Alan J Card, Evidence-Based Health Solutions, LLC, PO Box 62, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA; alan.j.card{at}gmail.com ‘The Problem with…’ series covers controversial topics related to ...