Background Understaffing by nursing staff in hospitals is linked to patients coming to harm and dying unnecessarily. There is ...

The quality of care anyone receives in the USA is highly dependent on where they receive care. Prior research has found that ...

What should we do in order to improve quality and safety in medicines management? How beneficial is it to design the ...

For patients in the intensive care unit (ICU), prolonged mechanical ventilation is associated with poor outcomes. A quality improvement (QI) initiative with the aim of reducing median time on the ...

Background Handoffs are a weak link in the chain of clinical care of inpatients. Within-unit handoffs are increasing in frequency due to changes in duty hours. There are strong rationales for ...

Background Ward rounds are an essential activity occurring in hospital settings. Despite their fundamental role in guiding patient care, they have no standardised approach. Implementation of ...

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

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, ...