Background There is growing recognition in the literature of the ‘Herculean’ efforts required to bring about change in healthcare processes and systems. Leadership is recognised as a critical lever ...
Objectives: To assess patients’ adherence to new medication for a chronic condition (and whether non-adherence was intentional), patients’ problems with their medication, and their further information ...
Objectives—To develop, validate, and test the reliability of an audit instrument that measures the extent to which patient records describe important aspects of nursing care. Material—Twenty records ...
Correspondence to: E M Schimmel, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, and the Grace-New Haven Community Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut, USA The occurrence of hospital ...
Correspondence to Dr Grace C Huang, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA 02215, USA; ghuang{at}bidmc.harvard.edu Background Diagnostic errors result in preventable ...
Background: Hip fractures, common in the elderly population, result in significant morbidity and mortality. A study was undertaken to determine how an evidence based clinical pathway (CP) for ...