This May, the World Health Assembly (WHA) will vote on re-establishing a mandate for the WHO to address the health ...

‘We need bold, fundamental change that gets at the roots of the burnout crisis.’- US Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy, MD, MBA. The key is understanding what is suboptimal. Their main findings from 124 ...

The continued use of low-value cancer screening practices not only represents healthcare waste but also a potential cascade of invasive diagnostic procedures and patient anxiety and distress. While ...

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Importance Patients with poor glycaemic control have a high risk for major cardiovascular events. Improving glycaemic monitoring in patients with diabetes can improve morbidity and mortality.

Background Drug–drug interaction (DDI) alerts target the co-prescription of two potentially interacting medications and are a frequent feature of electronic medical records (EMRs). There have been few ...

Patient safety has become an international priority with major research programmes being carried out in the USA, UK, and elsewhere. The challenge is how to organize research efforts that will produce ...

1 School of Nursing, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA 2 Division of Hospital Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA 3 ...

Improvement (defined broadly as purposive efforts to secure positive change) has become an increasingly important activity and field of inquiry within healthcare. This article offers an overview of ...