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

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 ...

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 ...

Errors must be accepted as evidence of systems flaws, not character flaws.”—Lucian Leape1 In losing Lucian Leape to heart ...

Patient safety has become an international priority with major research programmes being carried out in the USA, UK, and elsewhere. The challenge is how to organize research efforts that will produce ...

Introduction: Effective feedback from incident reporting systems in healthcare is essential if organisations are to learn from failures in the delivery of care. Despite the wide-scale development and ...

Correspondence to: Dr M A Mohammed Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK; m.a.mohammedbham.ac.uk Continuous improvement in health care and ...

1 UT - Memorial Hermann Center for Healthcare Quality & Safety, University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston, Texas, USA 2 Houston VA Health Services Research and Development Center ...

3 General Surgery, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, California, USA Correspondence to Dr Greg D Sacks, Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los ...

3 Nursing Research Institute, St. Vincent's & Mater Health Sydney and Australian Catholic University, Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Australia 4 Faculty of Pharmacy, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia ...

Background Patient complaints are associated with adverse events and malpractice claims but underused in patient safety improvement. Objective To systematically evaluate the use of patient complaint ...

Background Surgical complications represent a significant cause of morbidity and mortality with the rate of major complications after inpatient surgery estimated at 3–17% in industrialised countries.