Background Countries with resource-poor health systems have struggled to improve access to and the quality of caesarean section (C-section; CS) for women seeking care in public health facilities.

The investigation of incidents and accidents, together with subsequent reflection and action, is an essential component of safety management in every safety-critical industry, including healthcare. A ...

Comparing safety, performance and user perceptions of a patient-specific indication-based prescribing tool with current practice: a mixed methods randomised user testing study ...

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

The clinical microsystem puts medical error and harm reduction into the broader context of safety and quality of care by providing a framework to assess and evaluate ...

Background There is growing international interest in involving patients in interventions to promote and support them in securing their own safety. This paper reports a systematic review of ...

Introduction Hip fractures are associated with high rates of morbidity and mortality and their incidence is set to increase. The National Hip Fracture Database and the Best Practice Tariff were ...

‘The Problem with…’ series covers controversial topics related to efforts to improve healthcare quality, including widely recommended but deceptively difficult strategies for improvement and pervasive ...

Evaluation is an integral component of quality improvement and there is much to be learned from the evaluation of small scale quality improvement initiatives at a local level. This type of evaluation ...

Correspondence to Dr Eduardo Salas, Department of Psychology, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA; eduardo.salas{at}rice.edu Front-line medical teams are experiencing unprecedented stressors as a ...

Correspondence to Dr Robyn Clay-Williams, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, Sydney 2109, New South Wales, Australia; robyn.clay-williams{at}mq.edu.au The checklist ...

1 The University of Texas Center of Excellence for Patient Safety Research and Practice, Houston, Texas, USA 2 The University of Texas Houston Medical School, Department of Medicine, Division of ...