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.

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 ...

Correspondence to Professor Alex Bottle, School of Public Health, Imperial College London Faculty of Medicine, London, W12 7TA, UK; robert.bottle{at}imperial.ac.uk In healthcare, as in life, the adage ...

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 ...

1 Department of Medicine Residency Program, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 2 Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 3 Division of General Medicine, Brigham ...

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 ...

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