Background Understaffing by nursing staff in hospitals is linked to patients coming to harm and dying unnecessarily. There is ...

The quality of care anyone receives in the USA is highly dependent on where they receive care. Prior research has found that ...

Background Handoffs are a weak link in the chain of clinical care of inpatients. Within-unit handoffs are increasing in ...

What should we do in order to improve quality and safety in medicines management? How beneficial is it to design the ...

The article by Cho et al 1 in the current issue of BMJ Quality and Safety addresses the persistent and debilitating problem ...

For patients in the intensive care unit (ICU), prolonged mechanical ventilation is associated with poor outcomes. A quality improvement (QI) initiative with the aim of reducing median time on the ...

Correspondence to: E M Schimmel, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, and the Grace-New Haven Community Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut, USA The occurrence of hospital ...

Background Ward rounds are an essential activity occurring in hospital settings. Despite their fundamental role in guiding patient care, they have no standardised approach. Implementation of ...