Background To evaluate the effectiveness of a brief mindfulness intervention on hand hygiene performance and mindful attention for inpatient physician teams. Design A pilot, pre-test/post-test ...

Background Triage and clinical consultations increasingly occur remotely. We aimed to learn why safety incidents occur in remote encounters and how to prevent them. Setting and sample UK primary care.

Emergency presentations (EPs) in colorectal cancer (CRC) are common and associated with worse outcomes; many are potentially ...

Background Medical safety huddles are short, structured meetings for physicians to proactively discuss and respond to ...

Correspondence to Dr Medley O'Keefe Gatewood, Division of Emergency Medicine, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA 98195, USA; medley{at}uw.edu Background Sepsis causes substantial ...

4 National Leadership Council, Primary and Integrated Health Care Innovation Network, Quispamsis, New Brunswick, Canada Correspondence to Dr Onil Bhattacharyya, Family and Community Medicine, Women's ...

Background Experience-based codesign (EBCD) is an approach to health service design that engages patients and healthcare staff in partnership to develop and improve health services or pathways of care ...

Objective To contextualise the degree of harm that comes from unsafe medical care compared with individual health conditions using the global burden of disease (GBD), a metric to determine how much ...

Objective Because physician burnout negatively affects patients, organisations and those impacted, we aimed to identify and ...

Background There is a poorly understood relationship between Leadership WalkRounds (WR) and domains such as safety culture, employee engagement, burnout and work-life balance. Methods This ...

Safety in healthcare is a constantly moving target. As standards improve and concern for safety grows, we come to regard an increasing number of events as patient safety issues. In this respect, ...

Background Healthcare organisations have legal and ethical duties to reduce inequalities in access to healthcare services and related outcomes. However, lesbian, gay, bisexual and/or transgender ...