5 Director of the Centre for Research in Evidence-based Practice, Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Bond University, Headington, UK Correspondence to Professor Mary Dixon-Woods, Department of ...

‘The Problem with…’ series covers controversial topics related to efforts to improve healthcare quality, including widely recommended but deceptively difficult strategies for improvement and pervasive ...

Correspondence to Dr Cecilia Vindrola-Padros, Department of Applied Health Research, University College London, 1-19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 7HB, UK; c.vindrola{at}ucl.ac.uk The use of embedded ...

Investigations of accidents in a number of hazardous domains suggest that a cluster of organisational pathologies—the “vulnerable system syndrome” (VSS)—render some systems more liable to adverse ...

Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Case School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA Correspondence to: Professor D Neuhauser Department of Epidemiology and ...

CPPM, School of Management, The Gateway Building, North Haugh, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife, Scotland Correspondence to: R Rushmer CPPM, School of Management, The Gateway Building, North ...

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

Quality of care in Singapore has seen a paradigm shift from a traditional focus on structural approaches to a broader multidimensional concept which includes the monitoring of clinical indicators and ...

Background Efforts to improve the implementation of effective practice and to speed up improvements in quality and patient safety continue to pose challenges for researchers and policy makers.

Correspondence to Kelsey Chalmers, School of Public Health, Menzies Centre for Health Policy, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia; kelsey.chalmers{at}sydney.edu.au Low-value ...

2 Department of Sociology and Department of Human Geography, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands 3 EMGO Institute, Department of Public and Occupational Health, VU University Medical Center, ...

Healthcare personnel often find it challenging to incorporate disciplined quality improvement into their daily work. Planning, managing and completing improvement projects with sufficient rigour to ...