Background Out-of-hours primary care (OOH-PC) services are complex clinical environments where suboptimal care may occur.

2 Professor of General Practice, Department of General Practice, University of Antwerp, Universiteitsplein 1, 2610 Antwerp, Belgium 3 Professor of Quality in Health Care, Clinical Governance Research ...

Introduction: Care home residents are at particular risk from medication errors, and our objective was to determine the prevalence and potential harm of prescribing, monitoring, dispensing and ...

The year was 1987, and a bold experiment was under way—the US-based National Demonstration Project in Quality Improvement in Health Care (NDP). This effort brought together 21 companies recognised for ...

Background Triage and clinical consultations increasingly occur remotely. We aimed to learn why safety incidents occur in remote encounters and how to prevent them. Setting and sample UK primary care.

Adverse drug events continue to be the single most frequent source of healthcare mishaps, continually placing patients at risk of injury. This is not unexpected, given that drug treatment is the most ...

Objectives: To assess awareness and use of the current incident reporting system and to identify factors inhibiting reporting of incidents in hospitals. Design, setting and participants: Anonymous ...

1 Assistant Professor of Health Care Management and Policy, Department of Healthcare Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health; Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Mongan ...

Correspondence to Stephanie P Schwartz, Department of Pediatrics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Children's Hospital, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA; stephanie_schwartz{at}unc.edu Background ...

Correspondence to Dr Stephanie J Russ, Department of Surgery & Cancer, Imperial College London, Room 504, 5th floor, Wright Fleming Building, Norfolk Place, London W2 1PG, UK; s.russ{at}imperial.ac.uk ...

1 Edward Ford Building, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia 2 Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia Correspondence to: Dr Merrilyn M Walton Edward Ford ...

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 ...