Emergency presentations (EPs) in colorectal cancer (CRC) are common and associated with worse outcomes; many are potentially avoidable but require time-consuming manual chart review to identify.

Background Medical safety huddles are short, structured meetings for physicians to proactively discuss and respond to profession-specific patient safety concerns, with the goal of decreasing future ...

Objective Because physician burnout negatively affects patients, organisations and those impacted, we aimed to identify and evaluate factors contributing to burnout among internal medicine physicians ...

Background Triage and clinical consultations increasingly occur remotely. We aimed to learn why safety incidents occur in remote encounters and how to prevent them. Setting and sample UK primary care.

Background Healthcare organisations have legal and ethical duties to reduce inequalities in access to healthcare services and related outcomes. However, lesbian, gay, bisexual and/or transgender ...

This example provides a summary of a real case that occurred in a hospital and the failure to learn from the incident in spite of a root cause analysis. In a large acute hospital, a patient underwent ...

Objectives To systematically review the peer-reviewed literature on interruptions in healthcare settings to determine the state of the science and to identify the gaps in research. Methods Inclusion ...

1 Division of Physical Therapy Education, School of Allied Health Professions, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, USA 2 Department of Biostatistics, College of Public Health, ...

Correspondence to Dr Medley O'Keefe Gatewood, Division of Emergency Medicine, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA 98195, USA; medley{at}uw.edu Background Sepsis causes substantial ...

Objectives: To identify a generic set of face valid quality indicators for primary care mental health services which reflect a multi-stakeholder perspective and can be used for facilitating quality ...

Background There is a poorly understood relationship between Leadership WalkRounds (WR) and domains such as safety culture, employee engagement, burnout and work-life balance. Methods This ...

Chronic conditions are increasingly the primary concern of healthcare systems throughout the world. In response to this challenge, the World Health Organization has joined with the MacColl Institute ...