Background Given the emphasis on promoting inclusive policies, we investigated the relationship between US hospitals’ ...

Knowing what you are doing’ is a simple, but elemental value for any (care) professional. Acknowledging that treatments in ...

Background Children represent fewer than 10% of emergency medical services (EMS) encounters in the USA. We evaluated whether agency-level paediatric volume is associated with the quality of ...

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 ...

Developing the allied health professionals workforce within mental health, learning disability and autism inpatient services: rapid review of learning from quality and safety incidents ...

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 ...

3 Biomedical Research Center, Hospital Universitario NS Candelaria, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain Correspondence to: Dr S Nuñez Unidad de Investigacion, Hospital Universitario NS Candelaria, ...

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.

3 General Surgery, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, California, USA Correspondence to Dr Greg D Sacks, Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los ...

Background Respiratory rate (RR) is an independent predictor of adverse outcomes and an integral component of many risk prediction scores for hospitalised adults. Yet, it is unclear if RR is recorded ...