1 Field Office of VA’s National Center for Patient Safety, White River Junction, VT; Veterans Health Administration; The Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, ...

Correspondence to: Dr A N Healey Clinical Safety Research, Imperial College London, Department of Surgical Oncology and Technology, 10th Floor QEQM, St Mary’s Hospital, Praed Street, Paddington, ...

4 Central Nursing Office, Mater Adult Hospital, South Brisbane, Australia 5 Mater Adult, Women's and Children's Hospital, South Brisbane Australia 6 Mater Adult Hospital, South Brisbane, Australia ...

Correspondence to: Dr M A Mohammed Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK; m.a.mohammedbham.ac.uk Continuous improvement in health care and ...

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; ...

Department of Patient Safety, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Dr M A Boermeester, Department of Surgery, Academic Medical Center, Meibergdreef 9, G4-132.1, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, The ...

Healthcare institutions continue to face challenges in providing safe patient care in increasingly complex organisational and regulatory environments while striving to maintain financial viability.

Clinical Governance Unit, Metro South District, Queensland Health, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Correspondence to Dr Peter Lee, Clinical Governance Unit, Level 1 Melbourne St Office, Queensland ...

1 Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA 2 Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA 8 Pediatric Critical Care, ...

In Plato's Theaetetus, knowledge is defined as the intersection of truth and belief, where knowledge cannot be claimed if something is true but not believed or believed but not true. Using an example ...

Background It is well recognised in healthcare settings that clinical staff have a major influence over change in how services are provided. If a culture of systematic service improvement is to be ...

The identification of methods for assessing the views of patients on health care has only developed over the last decade or so. The use of patients' views to improve healthcare delivery requires valid ...