Antibiotic overuse contributes to the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Despite local, national and global initiatives to target the problem, reducing overuse is challenging. Levels of ...

While there is an increasing emphasis on patient empowerment and shared decision making, evidence suggests that many patients do not wish to be involved in decisions about their own care. Previous ...

BMJ Quality & Safety is an international peer-reviewed journal covering the science of improvement across healthcare service and provision.

Background Despite significant advances, patient safety remains a critical public health concern. Daily huddles—discussions to identify and respond to safety risks—have been credited with enhancing ...

Objectives To provide national estimates of the number and clinical and economic burden of medication errors in the National Health Service (NHS) in England. Methods We used UK-based prevalence of ...

In medicine, artificial intelligence (AI) research is becoming increasingly focused on applying machine learning (ML) techniques to complex problems, and so allowing computers to make predictions from ...

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The challenge of method Looking back over the current state of interruption research in healthcare, the majority of papers have focused on simple counting studies using a variety of methodologies to ...

SOME EARLY RESEARCH Convincing demonstrations of hindsight bias are well established experimentally 4–8 and the phenomenon has been the subject of extensive reviews. 9–11 Robust reports of it come ...

Effective improvement and research rely on sustained multidisciplinary collaboration, but few examples are available of centres with the broad range of disciplines and practical experience that are ...

Health information technology (health IT) has potential to improve patient safety but its implementation and use has led to unintended consequences and new safety concerns. A key challenge to ...

Controlling the costs of healthcare, which now exceed US$2.7 trillion, is an economic imperative.1–3 Costs of diagnostic testing probably account for more than 10% of all healthcare costs, and that ...