Background Quality improvement collaboratives (QIC) have proliferated internationally, but there is little empirical evidence for their effectiveness. Method We searched Medline, Embase, CINAHL, ...

In this issue of BMJ Quality & Safety , Meddings et al 1 report the evaluation of a national effort to reduce two well-known safety targets, central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI) and ...

Two positive blood culture bottles filled at the same venipuncture or catheter entry constitute only one positive blood culture. Central line-associated bloodstream infection case definition: A ...

Definition: A labour market is the place where workers and employees interact with each other. In the labour market, employers compete to hire the best, and the workers compete for the best satisfying ...

Current BMI-based measures of obesity can both underestimate and overestimate adiposity and provide inadequate information about health at the individual level, which undermines medically-sound ...