Correspondence to Dr Bonnie A. Armstrong, Surgery, International Centre for Surgical Safety, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada, M5B 1T8; ...
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Case School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA Correspondence to: Professor D Neuhauser Department of Epidemiology and ...
Evaluating the effects of increasing nursing numbers on quality of newborn care in understaffed neonatal units in Kenya: a prospective intervention study ...
Background As nurses are the principal care provider in the hospital setting, the completion or omission of nursing care is likely to have a sizable impact on the patient care experience. However, ...
Results Classical item statistics were used to select the final T-TAQ items. Based on this analysis, 30 of the original 110 items were selected for inclusion in the final instrument. Scale ...
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, ...
The role and value of theory in improvement work in healthcare has been seriously underrecognised. We join others in proposing that more informed use of theory can strengthen improvement programmes ...
Background Efforts to improve diagnosis should reflect the unique needs of children; however, there is no consensus on paediatric-specific priority areas. Methods An expert panel of 25 United States ...
Royal College of Nursing Institute, Royal College of Nursing, London, UK. The argument put forward in this paper is that successful implementation of research into practice is a function of the ...
Correspondence to Professor Bryony Dean Franklin, Centre for Medication Safety and Service Quality, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust/UCL School of Pharmacy, London, W6 8RF, UK; bryony.franklin{at ...
Background Improvement science has supported the methodological foundations for the application of quality improvement (QI) ...
Introduction Monitoring hospital mortality rates is widely recommended. However, the number of preventable deaths remains uncertain with estimates in England ranging from 840 to 40 000 per year, these ...