Objectives To review the empirical literature to identify the activities, time spent and
engagement of hospital managers in quality of care. Design A systematic review of the …

Effective team management is a core element of expert practice in emergency medicine.
Thus far, training in emergency medicine has focussed predominantly on proficiency in …

Context Despite serious and widespread efforts to improve the quality of health care, many
patients still suffer preventable harm every day. Hospitals find improvement difficult to …

Knapp 20 Jahre ist es her, dass das Institute of Medicine in den USA den bahnbrechenden
Report To Err Is Human („Irren ist menschlich") veröffentlichte und die internationale …

Background Patient safety incident reporting systems (PSRS) have been established for
over a decade, but uncertainty remains regarding the role that they can and ought to play in …

El sistema de salud mexicano ha tenido logros importantes que se reflejan en la mejora
creciente del nivel de salud. Empero, la heterogeneidad en la calidad de los servicios y su …

Objectives Hospital boards are legally responsible for safe healthcare. They need tools to
assist them in their task of governing patient safety. Almost every Dutch hospital performs …

Objectives To systematically review interventions that aim to improve the governance of
patient safety within emergency care on effectiveness, reliability, validity and feasibility …

Objective The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of accreditation programs on
Brazilian healthcare organizations. Design A web-based questionnaire survey was …

Background Patients are sometimes harmed in the course of receiving hospital care.
Existing research has highlighted a positive association between board engagement in …