This May, the World Health Assembly (WHA) will vote on re-establishing a mandate for the WHO to address the health ...

Introduction Quality improvement (QI) efforts are critical to promoting health equity and mitigating disparities in healthcare outcomes. Equity-focused QI (EF-QI) interventions address the unique ...

Correspondence to Dr Karen B Born, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5T3M6, Canada; karen.born{at}utoronto.ca There are growing calls for ...

Correspondence to Professor David Reeves, NIHR School for Primary Care Research, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, The University of Manchester Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, ...

Diagnosis is one of the most important tasks performed by primary care physicians. The World Health Organization (WHO) recently prioritized patient safety areas in primary care, and included ...

Correspondence to Peter F Kemper, Department of Public and Occupational Health, EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Center, Van de Boechorststraat 7, Amsterdam 1081 BT, ...

The continued use of low-value cancer screening practices not only represents healthcare waste but also a potential cascade of invasive diagnostic procedures and patient anxiety and distress. While ...

‘We need bold, fundamental change that gets at the roots of the burnout crisis.’- US Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy, MD, MBA. The key is understanding what is suboptimal. Their main findings from 124 ...

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Objectives Many hospitals use fall prevention alarms, despite the limited evidence of effectiveness. The objectives of this study were (1) to identify, conceptualise and select strategies to ...

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