As people age, so do their kidneys.1 The average decline in renal function is approximately 1 mL/min/year after 30 years ...

1 NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Patient Safety, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia 2 The Alfred Hospital, National Trauma Research Institute, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia ...

15 Centre for Health Services & Nursing Research, Catholic University Leuven, Leuven, Belgium 16 Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research, University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, ...

Objective To contextualise the degree of harm that comes from unsafe medical care compared with individual health conditions using the global burden of disease (GBD), a metric to determine how much ...

Correspondence to Dr Ian Leistikow, Medical Specialist Care, Dutch Healthcare Inspectorate, PO Box 2518, 6401DA Heerlen, The Netherlands; ip.leistikow{at}igz.nl The purpose of these systems is also ...

Correspondence to Atle Fretheim, Global Health Unit, Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services, P.O. Box 7004, St. Olavs, Oslo 0130, Norway; atle.fretheim{at}nokc.no Time series plots are ...

Correspondence to Dr Eduardo Salas, Department of Psychology, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA; eduardo.salas{at}rice.edu Front-line medical teams are experiencing unprecedented stressors as a ...

Correspondence to Dr Milisa Manojlovich, School of Nursing, University of Michigan School of Nursing, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA; mmanojlo{at}umich.edu Background Despite decades of research and ...

1 Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA 2 Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA 8 Pediatric Critical Care, ...

Healthcare managers, clinical researchers and individual patients (and their physicians) manage variation differently to achieve different ends. First, managers are primarily concerned with the ...

Correspondence to Dr Hardeep Singh, Houston VA HSR&D Center of Excellence, Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center and the Section of Health Services Research, Department of Medicine, ...

1 Department of Health Sciences, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK 2 NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK Correspondence to: Dr S Gilbody Senior Lecturer ...