2 Department of Health Sciences, University of York, York, UK 3 Department of Health Sciences, University of York and Hull York Medical School, York, UK 4 Department of Health Sciences, University of ...

Background Quality improvement collaboratives (QIC) have proliferated internationally, but there is little empirical evidence for their effectiveness. Method We searched Medline, Embase, CINAHL, ...

Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, CLARITY Research Group, Clinical Advancement through Research and Information Translation, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada ...

Evaluation of improvement initiatives in healthcare is essential to establishing whether interventions are effective and to understanding how and why they work in order to enable replication. Although ...

Doing ‘detective work’ to find a cancer: how are non-specific symptom pathways for cancer investigation organised, and what are the implications for safety and quality of care? A multisite qualitative ...

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Some hospital trusts and health authorities consistently outperform others on different dimensions of performance. Why? There is some evidence that “management matters”, as well as the combined ...

Background Natural hazards, such as earthquakes, pose a significant risk to both the public and healthcare professionals, jeopardising patient safety due to the disruption of healthcare systems and ...

3 Health Services Research Unit, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK Correspondence to: Professor M Eccles, Professor of Clinical Effectiveness, Centre for Health Services Research, 21 Claremont ...

Introduction The objectives of the Breakthrough Series Collaborative are to close the gap between what we know and what we do, and to contribute to continuous quality improvement (CQI) of healthcare ...

School of Information, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA Correspondence to Professor Michael D Cohen, School of Information, University of Michigan, 1085 South University Avenue, 312 ...