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BMJ Quality & Safety invites submissions to a topic collection on Patient Safety in Maternal and Child Health. Submissions must convey information that will help a wide range of international readers ...

Background Good outcomes for in-hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA) depend on a skilled resuscitation team, prompt initiation of high-quality cardiopulmonary resuscitation and defibrillation, and ...

Introduction: Care home residents are at particular risk from medication errors, and our objective was to determine the prevalence and potential harm of prescribing, monitoring, dispensing and ...

Centre for Safety Research, Department of Psychology, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands Correspondence to: P Hudson Centre for Safety Research, Department of Psychology, Leiden University, Leiden ...

Objective Overconfidence is an important source of medical error. This review analyses experimental studies of confidence in ...

Background Literature depicts differences in ethical decision-making (EDM) between countries and intensive care units (ICU). Objectives To better conceptualise EDM climate in the ICU and to validate a ...

Statistical process control (SPC) charts provide a natural approach to analysing time series data for healthcare quality ...

2 Professor of General Practice, Department of General Practice, University of Antwerp, Universiteitsplein 1, 2610 Antwerp, Belgium 3 Professor of Quality in Health Care, Clinical Governance Research ...

Background Valproate exposure during pregnancy causes major congenital malformations in 11% and neurodevelopmental disorders in 30–40% of exposed children. Despite regulatory interventions, including ...

Background Artificial intelligence large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to inform clinical decisions but ...