More than 20 years since a landmark study1 documented hospitalised patients were more likely to die when their nurse cared for too many patients at a time, hundreds of rigorously conducted studies in ...

1 The Research Institute, The Norwegian Medical Association, P O B 1152 Sentrum, N-0107 Oslo and Institute of Health Management and Health Economics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway 2 ...

1 Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 2 Department of Emergency Medicine, University of British Columbia, ...

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 ...

Objective There is a growing focus on quality and safety in healthcare. Outcome indicators are increasingly used to compare hospital performance and to rank hospitals, but the reliability of ranking ...

Correspondence to: Dr A J Lankshear Department of Health Sciences, Seebohm-Rowntree Building, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK; al25york.ac.uk Objectives: To assess the effectiveness of the ...

1 GKT Concordance Unit, Department of General Practice and Primary Care, Guy’s King’s and St Thomas’ School of Medicine, King’s College London 2 Department of Practice and Policy, The School of ...

This paper considers the application of discrete choice experiments for eliciting preferences in the delivery of health care. Drawing upon the results from a recently completed systematic review, the ...

Background Patient identification is a central safety critical aspect of healthcare work. Most healthcare activities require identification of patients by healthcare staff, often in connection with ...

1 Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA 2 Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA Correspondence to: Assistant Professor B-T Karsh ...

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 Professor Merrilyn Walton, Faculty of Medicine, Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia; merrilyn.walton ...