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; ...

1 Centre for Public Policy & Management, Department of Management, University of St Andrews, Fife, UK 2 Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, School of Health Sciences, Medical School, ...

Objectives: To assess current attitudes towards the national patient survey programme in England, establish the extent to which survey results are used and identify barriers and incentives for using ...

Background Those working in healthcare today are challenged more than ever before to quickly and efficiently learn from data to improve their services and delivery of care. There is broad agreement ...

1 Department of Psychology, Institute for Simulation & Training, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, USA 2 Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Armstrong Institute for ...

Background Surgical complications represent a significant cause of morbidity and mortality with the rate of major complications after inpatient surgery estimated at 3–17% in industrialised countries.

Correspondence to Dr Jaap F Hamming, Department of Surgery, Leiden University Medical Center, Albinusdreef 2, 2333 ZA, Leiden, The Netherlands; J.F.Hamming{at}lumc.nl ‘The problem with…’ series covers ...

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1 Clinical Excellence Commission, Martin Place, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 2 Quality and Safety Branch, NSW Department of Health, North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Background ...

1 Division of General Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 2 Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public ...

Footnotes Correction notice The article has been corrected since it was published online first. The acknowledgements section has been added in the paper. Contributors All authors except JCP ...

University of Missouri Health System, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri, USA Correspondence to S D Scott, Office of Clinical Effectiveness, University of Missouri Health System, One ...