Background Peripheral venous catheters (PVCs) are ubiquitous in hospitals, yet phlebitis remains common despite ...

A more promising way forward is to focus not so much upon the underlying mental processes but upon those task characteristics most likely to afford omissions (termed “affordances”). Recent ...

Quality improvement (QI) projects often employ statistical process control (SPC) charts to monitor process or outcome measures as part of ongoing feedback, to inform successive Plan-Do-Study-Act ...

1 Centre for Primary Health Care Studies, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK 2 Department of General Practice & Primary Care, Guy’s, King’s and St Thomas’ School of Medicine, ...

Correspondence to Dr Jeffrey L Schnipper, Division of General Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital Department of Medicine, Boston, MA 02115-6110, USA; jschnipper{at}partners.org Background ...

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4 Department of Surgery and Internal Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark 5 Department of Orthopaedics and Internal Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, ...

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Background Overuse of diagnostic testing substantially contributes to healthcare expenses and potentially exposes patients to unnecessary harm. Our objective was to systematically identify and examine ...

3 Centre for Environmental and Preventive Medicine, Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK 4 ...

2 Wolfson Unit of Clinical Pharmacology, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 4HH, UK; National Institute for Clinical Excellence, MidCity Place, 71 High Holborn, London WC1V 6NA, UK 3 ...

Department of Emergency Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA Correspondence to Dr Leigh V Evans, Department of Emergency Medicine, Yale University School of ...