The Journal encourages research and debate about improving the quality and safety of healthcare. It is led by patient-focused editors who seek to help a wide range of international readers — including ...

As the science of quality improvement in health care advances, the importance of sharing its accomplishments through the published literature increases. Current reporting of improvement work in health ...

Carmen Corral-Partearroyo, Alba Sánchez-Viñas, Ignacio Aznar-Lou, María Teresa Peñarrubia-María, Montserrat Gil-Girbau, Carmen Gallardo-González, María del Carmen Olmos-Palenzuela, Maria Rubio-Valera ...

Background Widespread attention to structural racism has heightened interest in disparities in the quality of care delivered to racial/ethnic minorities and other vulnerable populations. These groups ...

Introduction ‘Hybrid’ interventions in which some intervention components are fixed across sites and others are flexible (locally created) are thought to allow for adaptation to the local context ...

Background Double-checking the administration of medications has been standard practice in paediatric hospitals around the world for decades. While the practice is widespread, evidence of its ...

Results Across 2057 unique consultations, reviewers agreed that an MDO was possible, likely or certain in 89 cases or 4.3% (95% CI 3.6% to 5.2%) of reviewed consultations. Inter-reviewer agreement was ...

Objectives To provide national estimates of the number and clinical and economic burden of medication errors in the National Health Service (NHS) in England. Methods We used UK-based prevalence of ...

Quality indicators have been developed throughout Europe primarily for use in hospitals, but also increasingly for primary care. Both development and application are important but there has been less ...

Methods MEDLINE, CINAHL and the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews were searched from 1 January 2012 to 31 December 2019. Publications were included if they delivered patient-related outcomes ...

‘The Problem with…’ series covers controversial topics related to efforts to improve healthcare quality, including widely recommended but deceptively difficult strategies for improvement and pervasive ...