Background Patients are a valuable source of information about ways to prevent harm in primary care and are in a unique position to provide feedback about the factors that contribute to safety ...

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Objectives In the intensive care unit (ICU), antibiotics are often given longer than recommended in guidelines. A better understanding of the factors influencing antibiotic therapy duration is needed ...

Clinical Safety Research Unit, St Mary’s Hospital, London, UK R Davis, Clinical Safety Research Unit, Department of Bio-Surgery and Surgical Technology, 10th Floor, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother ...

3 Health Services Research Unit, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK Correspondence to: Professor M Eccles, Professor of Clinical Effectiveness, Centre for Health Services Research, 21 Claremont ...

1 Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London WC1 7HT, UK 2 Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London ...

Introduction National Health Service hospitals and government agencies are increasingly using mortality rates to monitor the quality of inpatient care. Mortality and Morbidity (M&M) meetings, ...

Correspondence to Professor Helen E Lester, NIHR School for Primary Care Research, University of Manchester, 7th Floor Williamson Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK; ...

1 University of Technology Sydney, Centre for Health Communication, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 2 HSPIB, NSW Ministry of Health, North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 3 Emergency Department, ...

Center for Organizational and Occupational Sciences, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland Correspondence to Dr Yvonne Pfeiffer, Center for Organizational and Occupational Sciences, ETH Zurich, Kreuzplatz 5 ...

1 Health Informatics Research & Evaluation Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia 2 Centre for Health Informatics, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Faculty ...