qualitysafety.bmj11d
Duration of antibiotic therapy in the intensive care unit: factors influencing decision-making during multidisciplinary meetings
Objectives In the intensive care unit (ICU), antibiotics are often given longer than recommended in guidelines. A better understanding of the factors influencing antibiotic therapy duration is needed ...
qualitysafety.bmj14d
Effect of text message reminders to improve paediatric immunisation rates: a randomised controlled quality improvement project
Previous studies have demonstrated that text message reminders can improve pediatric vaccination rates, including low income & diverse settings such as those served by federally qualified health ...
qualitysafety.bmj14d
Testing and cancer diagnosis in general practice
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qualitysafety.bmj9d
Art of leading quality improvement
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qualitysafety.bmj3d
Pressure ulcers: effectiveness of risk-assessment tools. A randomised controlled trial (the ULCER trial)
1 Centre for Clinical Nursing, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Brisbane, Australia 2 Wound Integrity, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Brisbane, Australia 3 Internal Medicine and Aged Care, ...
qualitysafety.bmj2d
W Edwards Deming: father of quality management, patient and composer
“The right quality and uniformity are foundations of commerce, prosperity and peace.” W E Deming (1900–1993) Variation causes waste. How could any one take these apparently simple ideas and turn them ...
qualitysafety.bmj2d
Hindsight bias, outcome knowledge and adaptive learning
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 ...
qualitysafety.bmj2d
Use of a standardized protocol to decrease medication errors and adverse events related to sliding scale insulin
Problem: Sliding scale insulin (SSI) is frequently used for inpatient management of hyperglycemia and is associated with a large number of medication errors and adverse events including hypoglycemia ...
qualitysafety.bmj8d
The Model for Understanding Success in Quality (MUSIQ): building a theory of context in healthcare quality improvement
1 Department of Pediatrics, Perinatal Institute, James M. Anderson Centre for Health Systems Excellence, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA 2 Associates in Process ...
qualitysafety.bmj5d
Designing a quality improvement intervention: a systematic approach
Most quality improvement or change management interventions are currently designed intuitively and their results are often disappointing. While improving the effectiveness of interventions requires ...
qualitysafety.bmj3d
Management of sickness absence: a quality improvement study from Slovenia.
PROBLEM: A need to improve the communication system between general practitioners (GPs) and the national health insurance institute's (NHII) committee of experts for the referral and approval of ...