Patients, clinicians and managers all want to be reassured that their healthcare organisation is safe. But there is no consensus about what we mean when we ask whether a healthcare organisation is ...

1 Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA 2 Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA 3 Department of Surgery, Johns ...

1 Department of Pediatrics, Perinatal Institute, James M. Anderson Centre for Health Systems Excellence, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA 2 Associates in Process ...

Background This study aimed to involve patients with chronic conditions in generating ideas for improving their care. Methods We performed a citizen science study. Participants were adult patients ...

Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Associates in Process Improvement, Austin, Texas, USA Correspondence to Lloyd P Provost, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Associates in Process Improvement, ...

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Results of a healthcare transition learning collaborative for emerging adults with sickle cell disease: the ST3P-UP study transition quality improvement collaborative ...

The case study and analyses presented here illustrate the crucial role of human factors engineering (HFE) in patient safety. HFE is a framework for efficient and constructive thinking which includes ...

2 Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA With the growth of the patient safety movement and development of methods to measure workforce health and success have come ...

Background: Data of quality are needed to identify ethnic disparities in health and healthcare and to meet the challenges in governance of race relations. Yet concerns over completeness, accuracy and ...