Background Prevention of healthcare-associated urinary tract infection (UTI) has been the focus of a national effort, yet appropriate indications for insertion and removal of urinary catheters (UC) ...

Objectives To develop an understanding of the factors that influence patient safety-related behaviours by nurses, doctors and allied health staff employed by Queensland Health, using a theory-driven ...

Clinical Governance Unit, Metro South District, Queensland Health, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Correspondence to Dr Peter Lee, Clinical Governance Unit, Level 1 Melbourne St Office, Queensland ...

Unit of Cancer Epidemiology, San Giovanni Battista Hospital, University of Turin and CPO Piemonte, Turin, Italy Background and objective: The impact of clinical guidelines (GL) on venous ...

Diagnostic delay, a type of diagnostic error, is the failure to establish an accurate and timely diagnosis; diagnostic delay remains a significant source of error in ...

Background Guideline developers and other health care decision makers benefit from following a structured process of specifying the health care questions they intend to answer and the outcomes of ...

Background Inpatient falls are adverse events that often result in injury due to complex interactions between the hospital ...

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

Objectives Many hospitals use fall prevention alarms, despite the limited evidence of effectiveness. The objectives of this ...

Quality improvement (QI) in the context of extremely limited healthcare access presents unique challenges, as the primary focus is often on increasing service quantity to meet needs. Access and ...