Correspondence to Mohammed A Mohammed, Primary Care Clinical Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK; m.a.mohammed{at}bham.ac.uk Statistical hypothesis testing involving the ...

1 Centre for Clinical Governance Research, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 2 Centre for Health Systems and Safety Research, ...

*There were two reports of bigeminy and one of supraventricular tachycardia. †Electrocardiographic signs of ischaemia, cardiac arrest, a lacerated tongue, and an oesophageal tear were each recorded on ...

Correspondence to Jean Storey, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center,Heart Institute,Cincinnati,Ohio,United States; jean.storey{at}cchmc.org Through observation of our own internal CICU to ...

Background Little is known about the incidence or significance of diagnostic error in the inpatient setting. We used a malpractice claims database to examine ...

1 School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Health, University of Tasmania, Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Australia 2 Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine, The University of Sydney, ...

Objective To assess the association of county-level bias about black and white people with patient experience, influenza immunisation, and quality of clinical care for black and white older US adults ...

Introduction Hip fractures are associated with high rates of morbidity and mortality and their incidence is set to increase. The National Hip Fracture Database and the Best Practice Tariff were ...

Correspondence to Dr Sumant R Ranji, Division of Hospital Medicine, Department of Medicine, UCSF, 533 Parnassus Avenue, Box 0131, San Francisco, CA 94143-0131, USA; sumantr{at}medicine.ucsf.edu ...

Background This study aimed to involve patients with chronic conditions in generating ideas for improving their care. Methods We performed a citizen science study. Participants were adult patients ...

In a time of financial uncertainty and structural reform, the National Health Service (NHS) in England needs clinical leadership to help improve the quality of patient care. Increasingly, leadership ...

1 Yale School of Public Health, Division of Health Policy and Administration, and Global Health Leadership Institute, New Haven, Connecticut, USA 2 Yale School of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, New ...