Background Risk aversion among junior doctors that manifests as greater intervention (ordering of tests, diagnostic procedures and so on) has been proposed as one of the possible causes for increased ...

1 Department of Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 2 Department of Pharmacy, Unit of Pharmacotherapy and Pharmaceutical Care, ...

The ubiquitous nature of hindsight bias is a cause for concern for those engaged in investigations and retrospective analysis of medical error. Hindsight does not ...

Correspondence to Jasper R C van Sambeek, Academic Medical Center, PO Box 22660, 1100 DD Amsterdam, the Netherlands; jvs{at}berenschot.com Background High access times for MRI facilities have a ...

Correspondence to Dr Marc Philip T Pimentel, Anesthesiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA; mppimentel{at}bwh.harvard.edu In healthcare quality improvement, we are trained to ...

Correspondence to Dr Roman Kislov, Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9SS, UK; roman.kislov{at}manchester.ac.uk Finally, analysis and interpretation of ...

2 Department of Bachelor in Nursing, University College Arteveldehogeschool Ghent, Gent, Belgium Context Previous studies report that pressure ulcer classification and differentiation from ...

1 Centre of Population Health Sciences: General Practice Section, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK 2 Tayside Centre for General Practice, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK 3 Centre for Rural ...

Correspondence to: MsI Philibert Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, 515 North State Street, Suite 2000, Chicago, IL 60610, USA; iphilibert{at}acgme.org It is widely accepted that ...

Most quality improvement or change management interventions are currently designed intuitively and their results are often disappointing. While improving the effectiveness of interventions requires ...

‘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 ...

3 Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, USA; VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System, Tennessee Valley Geriatric Research Education Clinical Center (GRECC), VA THVS Health ...