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 ...

Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Associates in Process Improvement, Austin, Texas, USA Correspondence to Lloyd P Provost, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Associates in Process Improvement, ...

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Correspondence to Dr Pascale Carayon, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Wisconsin Institute for Healthcare Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706, USA; ...

The case study and analyses presented here illustrate the crucial role of human factors engineering (HFE) in patient safety. HFE is a framework for efficient and constructive thinking which includes ...

2 Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA With the growth of the patient safety movement and development of methods to measure workforce health and success have come ...

Background: Data of quality are needed to identify ethnic disparities in health and healthcare and to meet the challenges in governance of race relations. Yet concerns over completeness, accuracy and ...

Introduction Patients are increasingly being thought of as central to patient safety. A small but growing body of work suggests that patients may have a role in reporting patient safety problems ...

Background Given the emphasis on promoting inclusive policies, we investigated the relationship between US hospitals’ inclusion efforts for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning, ...

2 Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA Background Shift change handoffs are known to be a point of vulnerability in the quality, safety and outcomes of healthcare.

5 Centre for Innovation in Complex Care, University Health Network University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 6 Centre for Patient Safety, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada ...

VA National Quality Scholars Program, Louis Stokes Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Center for Healthcare Research and Policy, MetroHealth Medical Center, Case Western ...