Objectives Patient safety has received increased attention in recent years, but mostly with a
focus on the epidemiology of errors and adverse events, rather than on practices that reduce …

… Kaushal and Bates); and the Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco
(Dr Shojania). Drs Kaushal and Shojania have no relevant financial interest in this article. …

Background: Systematic reviews are often advocated as the best source of evidence to guide
clinical decisions and health care policy, yet we know little about the extent to which they …

Routine practice fails to incorporate research evidence in a timely and reliable fashion.
Many quality improvement (QI) efforts aim to close these gaps between clinical research and …

ContextSubstantial discrepanies exist between clinical diagnoses and findings at autopsy.
Autopsy may be used as a tool for quality management to analyze diagnostic discrepanies.…

ContextThere have been numerous reports of interventions designed to improve the care of
patients with diabetes, but the effectiveness of such interventions is unclear.ObjectiveTo …

Background The opportunity to improve care by delivering decision support to clinicians at
the point of care represents one of the main incentives for implementing sophisticated clinical …

Medication reconciliation identifies and resolves unintentional discrepancies between
patients' medication lists across transitions in care. The purpose of this review is to summarize …

Context Although few patients with acute abdominal pain will prove to have cholecystitis,
ruling in or ruling out acute cholecystitis consumes substantial diagnostic resources. Objective …

Purpose To systematically review published quality improvement (QI) and patient safety (PS)
curricula for medical students and/or residents to (1) determine educational content and …