4 Central Nursing Office, Mater Adult Hospital, South Brisbane, Australia 5 Mater Adult, Women's and Children's Hospital, South Brisbane Australia 6 Mater Adult Hospital, South Brisbane, Australia ...

‘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 ...

Correspondence to Dr Mallika L Mendu, Department of Quality and Safety, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA; mmendu{at}partners.org Importance Death ...

Background It is well recognised in healthcare settings that clinical staff have a major influence over change in how services are provided. If a culture of systematic service improvement is to be ...

Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA Dr H E Wang, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, 230 McKee Place, Suite 400, Pittsburgh, PA ...

1 Children’s Hospital Boston, Boston, MA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; Center for Patient Safety in Neonatal Intensive Care, Burlington, VT, USA 2 Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, ...

Correspondence to Dr Joshua M Pevnick, Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Health System, 8700 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, California 90048, USA; ...

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 ...

In Plato's Theaetetus, knowledge is defined as the intersection of truth and belief, where knowledge cannot be claimed if something is true but not believed or believed but not true. Using an example ...

Correspondence to Professor Paul Batalden, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Lebanon, NH 03766, USA; paul.batalden{at}gmail.com Our interactions during the Colloquium ...

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 ...

Research questions The paper explores which type of quality aspects (structure, process, outcome) most strongly determines patients' overall assessment of healthcare, and whether there is a variation ...