Background: Many persons and their families are burdened by serious chronic illness in late
life. How to best support quality of life is an important consideration for care. Purpose: To …

Developing a culture of safety is a core element of many efforts to improve patient safety and
care quality. This systematic review identifies and assesses interventions used to promote …

Background Patients are safer and receive higher quality care when providers work as a
highly effective team. Investment in optimising healthcare teamwork has swelled in the last 10 …

Rapid-response systems (RRSs) are a popular intervention in US hospitals and are supported
by accreditors and quality improvement organizations. The purpose of this review is to …

Over the past 12 years, since the publication of the Institute of Medicine’s report,“To Err is
Human: Building a Safer Health System,” improving patient safety has been the focus of …

BACKGROUND: Little is known about symptoms and their burden in outpatients with chronic
heart failure. Diverse symptoms may be associated with poor heart failure-related quality of …

Background In patients with chronic heart failure, depression is common and associated
with poor quality of life, more frequent hospitalizations, and higher mortality. Spiritual well-being …

BACKGROUND A lower proportion of patients with chronic heart failure receive palliative care
compared to patients with advanced cancer. OBJECTIVE We examined the relative need …

Despite a decade's worth of effort, patient safety has improved slowly, in part because of the
limited evidence base for the development and widespread dissemination of successful …

Objective. To identify psychometrically sound measures of outcomes in end‐of‐life care and
to characterize their use in intervention studies. Data Sources. English language articles …