Background Experience-based codesign (EBCD) is an approach to health service design that engages patients and healthcare staff in partnership to develop and improve health services or pathways of care ...

Background Anecdotes and limited evidence suggest that a significant percentage of cancer patients encounter troublesome problems in the course of their care. Methods The authors collected data about ...

Correspondence to Aili V Langford, Faculty of Medicine and Health, School of Pharmacy, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2790, Australia; aili.langford{at}sydney.edu.au Background Chronic ...

Background Despite significant advances, patient safety remains a critical public health concern. Daily huddles—discussions to identify and respond to safety risks—have been credited with enhancing ...

Objective The objective of this review was to develop a taxonomy of pressures experienced by health services and an accompanying taxonomy of strategies for adapting in response to these pressures. The ...

Correspondence to Dr Fiona A Miller, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada; fiona.miller{at}utoronto.ca The COVID-19 pandemic has brought the ...

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Objective To assess quality of care for children presenting with acute abdominal pain using validated indicators. Design Audit of care quality for acute abdominal pain according to 21 care quality ...

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Correspondence to Dr Thomas Kannampallil, Department of Anesthesiology, Washington University in Saint Louis, Saint Louis, MO 63110, USA; thomas.k{at}wustl.edu Objective Handoffs are often framed as ...

Correspondence to Christina Soncrant, VA National Center for Patient Safety, White River Junction, VT 05001, USA; christina.soncrant{at}va.gov Introduction Suicide is the 10th leading cause of death ...

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 ...