Background It is now widely accepted that the mixed effect and success rates of strategies to
improve quality and safety in health care are in part due to the different contexts in which the …

Intensive efforts are underway across the world to improve the quality of health care. It is
important to use evaluation methods to identify improvement efforts that work well before …

For physicians, burnout is the inevitable consequence of the way that medical education is
organised and the subsequent maladaptive behaviours that are reinforced in healthcare …

This study aims to explore the potential mediation role of person-centeredness between the
effects of the work environment and nurse reported quality and patient safety. A quantitative …

The need to improve quality of care represents a major goal of all health care systems. The
objective of this series is to illuminate how the contextual factors of hospitals from eight …

Background Improving use of family planning services is key to improving maternal health in
Africa, and provision of quality of care in family planning services is critical to support higher …

Purpose–Quality of care and health professional burnout are important issues in their own
right, however, relatively few studies have examined both. The purpose of this paper is to …

Background The quality of care provided to patients with cancer who are dying in hospital
and their families is suboptimum. The UK Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP) for patients who …

Health system stewards have the critical task to identify quality of care deficiencies and
resolve underlying system limitations. Despite a growing evidence-base on the effectiveness …

Background England's extensive NHS patient survey programme has not fulfilled
government promises of widespread improvements in patients' experiences, and media …