Background Voluntary assisted dying (VAD) in Victoria, Australia, is governed by a stringent legislative framework, designed ...

More than 20 years since a landmark study1 documented hospitalised patients were more likely to die when their nurse cared for too many patients at a time, hundreds of rigorously conducted studies in ...

1 Centre of Population Health Sciences: General Practice Section, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK 2 Tayside Centre for General Practice, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK 3 Centre for Rural ...

The ubiquitous nature of hindsight bias is a cause for concern for those engaged in investigations and retrospective analysis of medical error. Hindsight does not ...

Correspondence to Dr Rishi Sikka, Advocate Health Care, 3075 Highland Avenue, Suite 600, Downers Grove, Il 60515, USA; rishi.sikka{at}advocatehealth.com In 2008, Donald Berwick and colleagues provided ...

3 Pharmacy Department, Queens Medical Centre, University Hospital, Nottingham NG7 2UH, UK Correspondence to: Mrs R L Howard, Division of Primary Care, School of Community Health Sciences, University ...

1 The Research Institute, The Norwegian Medical Association, P O B 1152 Sentrum, N-0107 Oslo and Institute of Health Management and Health Economics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway 2 ...

Background Medicines optimisation is a key role for hospital pharmacists, but with ever-increasing demands on services, there is a need to increase efficiency while maintaining patient safety.

Background Overuse of lumbar imaging is common in the emergency department (ED). Few trials have examined interventions to address this. We evaluated the effectiveness of a multifaceted intervention ...

2 National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC) for North-West London, London, UK Correspondence to Michael J Taylor, Academic ...

Correspondence to Dr Emma Claire Phillips, The University of Edinburgh, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, Edinburgh EH16 4SB, UK; e.c.phillips{at}doctors.org.uk Background and objectives ...

Correspondence to Dr Jason N Batten, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-6104, USA; jbatten{at}stanford.edu Background US hospitals typically provide a set of code status ...