Background Handoffs are a weak link in the chain of clinical care of inpatients. Within-unit handoffs are increasing in ...

Background Understaffing by nursing staff in hospitals is linked to patients coming to harm and dying unnecessarily. There is ...

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Dr Foster Unit at Imperial, Department of Primary Care & Social Medicine, Imperial College Faculty of Medicine, London, UK Dr A Bottle, Dr Foster Unit at Imperial, Department of Primary Care & Social ...

Comparing safety, performance and user perceptions of a patient-specific indication-based prescribing tool with current practice: a mixed methods randomised user testing study ...

Background: Improving quality of end-of-life care is a key driver of UK policy. The Gold Standards Framework (GSF) for Palliative Care aims to strengthen primary palliative care through facilitating ...

Introduction This paper expands the analogy between motor racing team pit stops and patient handovers. Previous studies demonstrated how the handover of patients following surgery could be improved by ...

2 VA National Center for Patient Safety, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA 3 VA National Center for Patient Safety Field Office, White River Junction, Vermont, USA Background The Veterans Health Administration ...