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 ...

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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 ...

4 Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA Correspondence to Dr Michael S Schechter, Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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

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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 ...

1 Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology (CLINTEC), Division of Anaesthesia and Intensive care, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden 2 Department of Clinical Science, ...

Correspondence to Professor Ronen Rozenblum, Division of General Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02120, USA; RROZENBLUM{at}PARTNERS.ORG Social media usage has become a ...