1 NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Patient Safety, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia 2 The Alfred Hospital, National Trauma Research Institute, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia ...

Background Healthcare leaders look to high-reliability organisations (HROs) for strategies to improve safety, despite questions about how to translate these strategies into practice. Weick and ...

Objective: To develop a framework for understanding factors affecting the use of patient survey data in quality improvement. Design: Qualitative interviews with senior health professionals and ...

One major difference between historical and nonhistorical judgment is that the historical judge typically knows how things turned out. In Experiment 1, receipt of such outcome knowledge was found to ...

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Background Interruptions and multitasking have been demonstrated in experimental studies to reduce individuals’ task performance. These behaviours are frequently used by clinicians in high-workload, ...

1 School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK 2 Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge, ...

Clinical Safety Research Unit, Department of Surgery and Cancer, St. Mary's Hospital, London, UK Correspondence to Rachel Davis, Clinical Safety Research Unit, Department of Surgery and Cancer, 10 th ...

School of Public Health and Community Medicine, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia P Garrett, Simpson Centre for Health Services Research, The University of New South Wales, ...

Correspondence to Dr Craig G Gunderson, Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA; craig.gunderson{at}va.gov Background ...

Several papers with a common theme published between May and August 2002 are drawn together to present a research-informed critique of economic logic present within recent NHS reform. They attempt to ...