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What to expect when you're evaluating healthcare improvement: a concordat approach to managing collaboration and uncomfortable realities
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 ...
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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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The beast and the burden: will pruning performance measurement improve quality?
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The published literature on handoffs in hospitals: deficiencies identified in an extensive review
School of Information, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA Correspondence to Professor Michael D Cohen, School of Information, University of Michigan, 1085 South University Avenue, 312 ...
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Integrating empowerment evaluation and quality improvement to achieve healthcare improvement outcomes
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, ...
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Mortality and morbidity meetings: an untapped resource for improving the governance of patient safety?
Introduction National Health Service hospitals and government agencies are increasingly using mortality rates to monitor the quality of inpatient care. Mortality and Morbidity (M&M) meetings, ...
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Safety measurement and monitoring in healthcare: a framework to guide clinical teams and healthcare organisations in maintaining safety
Patients, clinicians and managers all want to be reassured that their healthcare organisation is safe. But there is no consensus about what we mean when we ask whether a healthcare organisation is ...
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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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A typology of organisational cultures
There is wide belief that organisational culture shapes many aspects of performance, including safety. Yet proof of this relationship in a medical context is hard to find. In contrast to human factors ...
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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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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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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 ...