Background Voluntary assisted dying (VAD) in Victoria, Australia, is governed by a stringent legislative framework, designed ...

Background Healthcare patient safety investigations inappropriately focus on individual culpability and the target of recommendations is often on the behaviours of individuals, rather than addressing ...

Background The challenges facing guideline developers when making recommendations about diagnostic tests and strategies (DTS) are considerably different when compared to treatment recommendations.

Background Diagnostic errors cause substantial preventable harms worldwide, but rigorous estimates for total burden are lacking. We previously estimated diagnostic ...

Background Patient complaints are associated with adverse events and malpractice claims but underused in patient safety improvement. Objective To systematically evaluate the use of patient complaint ...

In 2005, draft guidelines were published for reporting studies of quality improvement interventions as the initial step in a consensus process for development of a more definitive version. This ...

Introduction: The frequency of adverse events in the operating theatre has been linked to the quality of teamwork and communication. Developing suitable measures of teamwork may play a role in ...

Department of Social Psychology, London School of Economics, London, UK Correspondence to Dr Tom Reader, Department of Social Psychology, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, ...

Correspondence to Dr Jonathan Zipursky, Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, M4N 3M5, Canada; jonathan.zipursky{at}mail.utoronto.ca The first reproductive drug safety initiatives were ...

Correspondence to Dr Robyn Clay-Williams, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, Sydney 2109, New South Wales, Australia; robyn.clay-williams{at}mq.edu.au The checklist ...

Objectives Uncertainties exist about when and how best to adjust performance measures for case mix. Our aims are to quantify the impact of case-mix adjustment on practice-level scores in a national ...

3 Consultant Specialist, Australian Patient Safety Foundation; Visiting Research Fellow, University of Adelaide and Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia 4 Senior Staff ...