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A realist review of how, why, for whom and in which contexts quality improvement in healthcare impacts inequalities
Introduction Quality improvement (QI) is aimed at improving care. Equity is one of the six domains of healthcare quality, as defined by the Institute of Medicine. If this domain is ignored, QI ...
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Rate of avoidable deaths in a Norwegian hospital trust as judged by retrospective chart review
Background The proportion of avoidable hospital deaths is challenging to estimate, but has great implications for quality improvement and health policy. Many studies and monitoring tools are based on ...
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The beast and the burden: will pruning performance measurement improve quality?
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The run chart: a simple analytical tool for learning from variation in healthcare processes
Background Those working in healthcare today are challenged more than ever before to quickly and efficiently learn from data to improve their services and delivery of care. There is broad agreement ...
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How willing are patients to question healthcare staff on issues related to the quality and safety of their healthcare? An exploratory study
Clinical Safety Research Unit, St Mary’s Hospital, London, UK R Davis, Clinical Safety Research Unit, Department of Bio-Surgery and Surgical Technology, 10th Floor, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother ...
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Reconcilable differences: correcting medication errors at hospital admission and discharge
3 Division of General Internal Medicine and Patient Safety Service, Sunnybrook & Women’s College Health Sciences Centre and Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ...
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Research designs for studies evaluating the effectiveness of change and improvement strategies
3 Health Services Research Unit, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK Correspondence to: Professor M Eccles, Professor of Clinical Effectiveness, Centre for Health Services Research, 21 Claremont ...
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Developing a primary care patient measure of safety (PC PMOS): a modified Delphi process and face validity testing
Background Patients are a valuable source of information about ways to prevent harm in primary care and are in a unique position to provide feedback about the factors that contribute to safety ...
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Identifying unintended consequences of quality indicators: a qualitative study
Correspondence to Professor Helen E Lester, NIHR School for Primary Care Research, University of Manchester, 7th Floor Williamson Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK; ...
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Preferences and understanding their effects on health
1 Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London WC1 7HT, UK 2 Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London ...
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Conceptualising barriers to incident reporting: a psychological framework
Center for Organizational and Occupational Sciences, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland Correspondence to Dr Yvonne Pfeiffer, Center for Organizational and Occupational Sciences, ETH Zurich, Kreuzplatz 5 ...