Background Drug–drug interaction (DDI) alerts target the co-prescription of two potentially interacting medications and are a ...

Social Science Applied to Healthcare Improvement Research Group, Department of Health Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK Correspondence to Professor Mary Dixon-Woods, ...

BMJ Quality & Safety invites submissions to a topic collection on Patient Safety in Maternal and Child Health. Submissions must convey information that will help a wide range of international readers ...

1 Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA 2 Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT, USA Correspondence to: Associate Professor M Apkon Yale University School of Medicine, 333 Cedar ...

15 Centre for Health Services & Nursing Research, Catholic University Leuven, Leuven, Belgium 16 Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, ...

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Department of Pharmacy, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands M A Boermeester, Department of Surgery (G4-109.2), Academic Medical Center, Meibergdreef 9, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, ...

Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 2PR, UK Correspondence to: Professor M W Calnan Department of Social Medicine, Canynge Hall, Whiteladies Road, University of Bristol, ...

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 ...

Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA Correspondence to: Associate Professor P J Pronovost Department of Anaesthesiology and ...

Objective: To describe the development and evaluation of the OutPatient Experiences Questionnaire (OPEQ) for somatic outpatients. Design: Literature review, patient interviews, pretesting of ...

A wide variety of research studies suggest that breakdowns in the diagnostic process result in a staggering toll of harm and patient deaths. These include autopsy studies, case reviews, surveys of ...