Background Intraoperative hypothermia can lead to adverse clinical outcomes and avoidable financial and environmental costs. Environmentally preferable warming practices have been identified, ...

1 Duke Patient Safety Center, Duke University Health System, Durham, North Carolina, USA Correspondence to Dr Stephanie P Schwartz, Department of Pediatrics, Duke Children's Hospital and Health Center ...

Methods Data sources were identified using database searches, with additional reference and hand searching. Eligibility criteria were applied to all studies identified, resulting in a total of 24 ...

Correspondence to: Dr Johan Thor Medical Management Centre, Berzelius väg 3, 5th floor, Karolinska Institutet, S-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden; johan.thor{at}ki.se Objective: To systematically review the ...

Sepsis and antimicrobial stewardship programmes coexist in tension, as they can appear to have apparently opposing messages around antimicrobial prescribing. In the era of increasing antimicrobial ...

Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics (LIME), Medical Management Centre (MMC), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden Correspondence to Susanne Ullström, Department of Learning, ...

Background: Evidence-based clinical guidelines aim to improve the quality of care. In The Netherlands, considerable time and effort have been invested in the development and implementation of evidence ...

Objective: This study determined the incidence, type, nature, preventability and impact of adverse events (AEs) among hospitalised patients and potentially preventable deaths in Dutch hospitals.

2 Department of Management, Technology, and Economics, Center for Organizational and Occupational Sciences, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland 3 Department of Anaesthesia and Swiss Center for Medical ...

Background Many emergency admissions are deemed to be potentially avoidable in a well-performing health system. Objective To measure the impact of population and health system factors on county-level ...