... to improve quality, efficiency, and safety. Design/methodology/approach Incident reporting data recorded in one NHS acute Trust was mined for insight (n = 133,893 April 2005–July 2016 across 201 fields, 26,912,493 items). An a priori dataset was overlaid consisting of staffing, vital signs...

... department regarding an unstructured handover system, poor access to relevant clinical information, and inadequate weekend staffing. A quality improvement programme was designed and implemented to respond to these concerns and improve patient safety. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design...

... staffing and safety. The purpose of this paper is to uncover possible associations and explore if a deeper understanding of relationships between staffing and other factors such as safety could be revealed within routinely collected national data sets. Design/methodology/approach Two longitudinal...

... stress rural physicians, especially in emergency situations (Curran and Rourke, 2004). Management Staffing Recruitment Retention Quality management Many US physicians are reaching retirement age and new generations tend to have a different approach to medical practice, placing greater...

... opportunities for improvement identified in this study are not exclusive to physician scheduling but are pervasive in healthcare processes in general. Quality improvement Staffing Resource efficiency Information management and technology Quality healthcare Sweden © Emerald Group Publishing...