1 Department of Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH, USA 2 Departments of Pediatrics and of Internal Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH, USA 3 Veterans ...

Background Little is known about the incidence or significance of diagnostic error in the inpatient setting. We used a malpractice claims database to examine ...

Evaluation of improvement initiatives in healthcare is essential to establishing whether interventions are effective and to understanding how and why they work in order to enable replication. Although ...

Background Structured diabetes care can improve outcomes and reduce risk of complications, but improving care in a deprived, ethnically diverse area can prove challenging. This report evaluates a ...

Background Quality improvement collaboratives (QIC) have proliferated internationally, but there is little empirical evidence for their effectiveness. Method We searched Medline, Embase, CINAHL, ...

While the body of evidence-based healthcare interventions grows, the ability of health systems to deliver these interventions effectively and efficiently lags behind. Quality improvement approaches, ...

Correspondence to Professor Jill Klein, University of Melbourne, Department of Medical Education, Melbourne Medical School, Parkville, 3010 Australia; jillkleinmbs{at}gmail.com As medical students ...

9 VA Center for Clinical Management Research, VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, and Department of Internal Medicine and Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, ...

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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, ...