The case study and analyses presented here illustrate the crucial role of human factors engineering (HFE) in patient safety. HFE is a framework for efficient and constructive thinking which includes ...

Background: Data of quality are needed to identify ethnic disparities in health and healthcare and to meet the challenges in governance of race relations. Yet concerns over completeness, accuracy and ...

The Enhancing the Quality and Transparency of Health Research (EQUATOR) Network indexes over 600 reporting guidelines designed to improve the reproducibility of manuscripts across medical fields and ...

Background Given the emphasis on promoting inclusive policies, we investigated the relationship between US hospitals’ inclusion efforts for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning, ...

Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, CLARITY Research Group, Clinical Advancement through Research and Information Translation, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada ...

Correspondence to Dr Joanna Abraham, Department of Anesthesiology, Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis, St Louis, MO 63110, USA; joannaa{at}wustl.edu Objective To conduct a systematic ...

2 Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA Background Shift change handoffs are known to be a point of vulnerability in the quality, safety and outcomes of healthcare.

Background: Most studies of healthcare complications identify surgery as a major contributor to the overall burden of complicated care that leads to injury or death. Indeed, surgical adverse events ...