Background Quality improvement collaboratives are widely used to improve health care in
both high-income and low and middle-income settings. Teams from multiple health facilities …

Background Placebo and nocebo effects embody psychoneurobiological phenomena where
behavioural, neurophysiological, perceptive and cognitive changes occur during the …

Background Recognising the influence of context and the context-sensitive nature of quality
improvement (QI) interventions is crucial to implementing effective improvements and …

Objective. To assess the culture of patient safety in studies that employed the hospital survey
on patient safety culture (HSOPS) in hospitals around the world. Method. We searched …

Only two years after publishing the first edition of this handbook, we started working on a
second edition. Three reasons were responsible for why we thought that a second edition …

Background Context shapes the effectiveness of knowledge implementation and influences
health improvement. Successful healthcare quality improvement (QI) initiatives frequently fail …

Purpose: In the era of value-based healthcare, one strives for the most optimal outcomes
and experiences from the perspective of the patient. So, patient experiences have become a …

Aims and objectives To evaluate the impact of supportive interventions perceived by both
the intensive care unit patients' relatives and the healthcare providers, such as deferred …

Background The intensive care unit provides complex care for critically ill patients.
Consequently, due to the nature of critical illness and the therapies administered in intensive …

Background In the scientific literature, many studies describe the application of lean
methodology in the hospital setting. Most of the articles focus on the results rather than on …