Background Drug–drug interaction (DDI) alerts target the co-prescription of two potentially interacting medications and are a ...

Box 1 IOM recommendations Establish a national focus on patient safety by creating a centre for patient safety within the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Identify and learn from errors by ...

Background Problems of quality and safety persist in health systems worldwide. We conducted a large research programme to examine culture and behaviour in the English National Health Service (NHS).

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Background Many hospital systems seek to improve patient satisfaction as assessed by the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) surveys. A systematic review of the ...

Correspondence to: Dr Johan Thor Medical Management Centre, Berzelius väg 3, 5th floor, Karolinska Institutet, S-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden; johan.thor{at}ki.se Objective: To systematically review the ...

Background Surgical complications represent a significant cause of morbidity and mortality with the rate of major complications after inpatient surgery estimated at 3–17% in industrialised countries.

15 Centre for Health Services & Nursing Research, Catholic University Leuven, Leuven, Belgium 16 Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, ...

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5 Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 6 Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins ...

Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 2PR, UK Correspondence to: Professor M W Calnan Department of Social Medicine, Canynge Hall, Whiteladies Road, University of Bristol, ...

Medication-related problems remain one of the leading causes of patient harm.1 Studies show that advances in electronic health records (EHR) and computerised prescribing systems with clinical decision ...