Background Healthcare patient safety investigations inappropriately focus on individual culpability and the target of ...

Background Those working in healthcare today are challenged more than ever before to quickly and efficiently learn from data to improve their services and delivery of care. There is broad agreement ...

Background Burnout threatens intensive care unit (ICU) professionals’ capacity to provide high-quality care. Moral distress is previously considered a root cause of burnout, but there are other risk ...

Background Respiratory rate (RR) is an independent predictor of adverse outcomes and an integral component of many risk prediction scores for hospitalised adults. Yet, it is unclear if RR is recorded ...

Providing clinical care is above all a service; in that sense, the medical profession aspires to Aristotelian phronesis, or prudence—being ‘capable of action with regard to things that are good and ...

Patients, clinicians and managers all want to be reassured that their healthcare organisation is safe. But there is no consensus about what we mean when we ask whether a healthcare organisation is ...

Social Science Applied to Healthcare Improvement Research Group, Department of Health Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK Correspondence to Professor Mary Dixon-Woods, ...

Center for Organizational and Occupational Sciences, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland Correspondence to Dr Yvonne Pfeiffer, Center for Organizational and Occupational Sciences, ETH Zurich, Kreuzplatz 5 ...

Correspondence to Dr Hanan Alahmadi, Health Administration, Institute of Public Administration, PO Box 205, Riyadh 11141, Saudi Arabia; h_alahmadi{at}yahoo.com Context Healthcare organisations in ...