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Large language models in healthcare information research: making progress in an emerging field
The last 5 years have seen a rapid growth in research applying artificial intelligence or machine learning to improve the quality and safety of healthcare. This coincides with the release of web ...
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Reducing the value/burden ratio: a key to high performance in value-based care
The healthcare delivered in high-income countries is riddled with defects in value. One in 10 patients experiences harm when ...
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Rising above the strain? Adaptive strategies used by healthcare providers in intensive care units to promote safety
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Patient-activated escalation in hospital: patients and their families are ready!
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County-level racial bias is associated with worse care for white and especially black older US adults: a cross-sectional observational study
Objective To assess the association of county-level bias about black and white people with patient experience, influenza immunisation, and quality of clinical care for black and white older US adults ...
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Are ‘hybrid’ interventions inherently self-sabotaging?
In this issue of BMJ Quality & Safety, Hampton and colleagues report a process evaluation of an intervention trial intended to encourage older patients’ involvement in their hospital care.1 The logic ...
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The limits of checklists: handoff and narrative thinking
1 Division of Health Services Management and Policy, College of Public Health, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA 2 Department of Surgery, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, ...
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Preventing medication errors in community pharmacy: root-cause analysis of transcription errors
4 Danish Society for Patient Safety, Hvidovre Hospital, Hvidovre, Denmark Correspondence to: P Knudsen Pharmakon a/s, Danish College of Pharmacy Practice, DK-3400 Hillerød, Denmark; ...
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Effects of a team-based assessment and intervention on patient safety culture in general practice: an open randomised controlled trial
Background The measurement of safety culture in healthcare is generally regarded as a first step towards improvement. Based on a self-assessment of safety culture, the Frankfurt Patient Safety Matrix ...
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Avedis Donabedian: father of quality assurance and poet
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Case School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106-4945, USA Correspondence to: Professor D Neuhauser Department of ...
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Peers without fears? Barriers to effective communication among primary care physicians and oncologists about diagnostic delays in cancer
Objective Relatively little attention has been devoted to the role of communication between physicians as a mechanism for individual and organisational learning about diagnostic delays. This study’s ...