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 ...

Purpose Misgendering of transgender and non-binary (TGNB) individuals in healthcare settings can lead to worsened mental and physical health outcomes and decreased utilisation of care. Few studies ...

More than 20 years since a landmark study1 documented hospitalised patients were more likely to die when their nurse cared for too many patients at a time, hundreds of rigorously conducted studies in ...

Choosing Wisely (CW) identifies low-value, wasteful medical interventions whose elimination increases the quality of care and likely reduces its costs.1 Since its launch in 2012, this grassroot ...

Introduction There is a growing awareness today that adverse events in the intensive care unit (ICU) are more often caused by problems related to non-technical skills than by a lack of technical, or ...

‘We need bold, fundamental change that gets at the roots of the burnout crisis.’ - US Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy, MD, MBA. Well-being was brought into clearer focus during the COVID-19 pandemic, ...

Background Differences in contexts (eg, policies, healthcare organisation characteristics) may explain variations in the effects of patient safety practice (PSP) implementations. However, knowledge of ...

The emergency department (ED) abounds with hazards that might lead to adverse events (AEs). Clinicians must make frequent, high-consequence decisions with high diagnostic uncertainty as part of ad hoc ...

Sepsis remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide.1 The use of artificial intelligence (AI), and particularly machine-learning (ML) approaches, to predict which patients are at risk ...

Objectives To assess whether, compared with previous years, hospital care became safer in 2011/2012, expressing itself in a fall in preventable adverse event (AE) rates alongside patient safety ...

Tackling overuse in healthcare is now more necessary than ever. Movements such as Choosing Wisely and Preventing Overdiagnosis have highlighted that some healthcare services offer no added value and ...

Future research is needed to understand if and how HEI and similar metrics of inclusive policies and practices are linked to specific patient outcomes. Yet, even without that evidence to date, ...