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The problem of appraising qualitative research
Qualitative research can make a valuable contribution to the study of quality and safety in health care. Sound ways of appraising qualitative research are needed, but currently there are many ...
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Investigators are human too: outcome bias and perceptions of individual culpability in patient safety incident investigations
Background Healthcare patient safety investigations inappropriately focus on individual culpability and the target of recommendations is often on the behaviours of individuals, rather than addressing ...
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Beyond “see one, do one, teach one”: toward a different training paradigm
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Quality and Safety Research Group, Baltimore, MD, USA In the process of acquiring new skills, physicians-in-training may expose patients to harm because ...
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How to study improvement interventions: a brief overview of possible study types
Improvement (defined broadly as purposive efforts to secure positive change) has become an increasingly important activity and field of inquiry within healthcare. This article offers an overview of ...
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Addressing the challenges of knowledge co-production in quality improvement: learning from the implementation of the researcher-in-residence model
The concept of knowledge co-production is used in health services research to describe partnerships (which can involve researchers, practitioners, managers, commissioners or service users) with the ...
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Improving feedback on junior doctors’ prescribing errors: mixed-methods evaluation of a quality improvement project
1 Centre for Medication Safety and Service Quality, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK 2 Centre for Patient Safety and Service Quality, Imperial College London, London, UK ...
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Measuring patient safety climate: a review of surveys
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 ...
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What US hospitals are currently doing to prevent common device-associated infections: results from a national survey
Background Despite focused initiatives to reduce device-associated infection among hospitalised patients, the practices US hospitals are currently using are unknown. We thus used a national survey to ...
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Grand rounds in methodology: key considerations for implementing machine learning solutions in quality improvement initiatives
Machine learning (ML) solutions are increasingly entering healthcare. They are complex, sociotechnical systems that include data inputs, ML models, technical infrastructure and human interactions.
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A primer on PDSA: executing plan–do–study–act cycles in practice, not just in name
1 Centre for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Too often, however, improvement teams go through the motions of PDSA cycles without really ...
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Impact of a hospital-wide hand hygiene initiative on healthcare-associated infections: results of an interrupted time series
1 Department of Medicine, The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA 2 The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, The Geisel School of Medicine at ...
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The impact of traditional and smart pump infusion technology on nurse medication administration performance in a simulated inpatient unit
2 Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 3 Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Faculty of Medicine, University ...