Avedis Donabedian Institute, Autonomous University of Barcelona, and CIBER Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain Background: There is growing recognition of patients’ ...

Purpose Misgendering of transgender and non-binary (TGNB) individuals in healthcare settings can lead to worsened mental and physical health outcomes and decreased utilisation of care. Few studies ...

Department of Perioperative Medicine, Anaesthesia & Pain Management, The Geelong Hospital, Geelong, Victoria 3220, Australia Correspondence to: Associate Professor S N Bolsin, Department of ...

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 ...

The clinical microsystem puts medical error and harm reduction into the broader context of safety and quality of care by providing a framework to assess and evaluate ...

Background Little is known about factors affecting implementation of patient safety programmes in low and middle-income countries. The goal of our study was to evaluate the implementation of a patient ...

Department of Clinical Pharmacy, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands Ms J E van Doormaal, University Medical Center Groningen, Department of Clinical Pharmacy, Postbus 30001, ...

Correspondence to Professor Rachel Ann Elliott, Manchester Centre for Health Economics, School of Health Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK; ...

Background High-quality antenatal care is important for ensuring optimal birth outcomes and reducing risks of maternal and fetal mortality and morbidity. The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the usual ...

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Background Risk aversion among junior doctors that manifests as greater intervention (ordering of tests, diagnostic procedures and so on) has been proposed as one of the possible causes for increased ...