Department of Health Services Research & Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK Correspondence to Dr Nick Black, Department of Health Services Research & Policy, London ...

1 NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Patient Safety, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia 2 The Alfred Hospital, National Trauma Research Institute, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia ...

1 Division of Physical Therapy Education, School of Allied Health Professions, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, USA 2 Department of Biostatistics, College of Public Health, ...

Correspondence to Eric J Thomas, University of Texas at Houston, Memorial Hermann Center for Healthcare Quality and Safety, 6410 Fannin, UPB 1100.45, Houston, TX 77030, USA; eric.thomas{at}uth.tmc.edu ...

Background Ethnic minorities and some other patient groups consistently report lower scores on patient surveys, but the reasons for this are unclear. This study examined whether low scores of ethnic ...

Correspondence to Stephanie P Schwartz, Department of Pediatrics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Children's Hospital, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA; stephanie_schwartz{at}unc.edu Background ...

Correspondence to: Dr S Michie Centre for Outcomes Research and Effectiveness, Department of Psychology, University College London, London WC1E 7HB, UK; s.michieucl.ac.uk Background: Evidence-based ...

Objectives Uncertainties exist about when and how best to adjust performance measures for case mix. Our aims are to quantify the impact of case-mix adjustment on practice-level scores in a national ...

1 Professor of Health Policy and Management, The Nordic School of Public Health and The Karolinska Institute, Sweden, and The Faculty of Medicine, Bergen University, Norway 2 Robert Ratner Professor ...

Correspondence to Dr Adi Hirshberg, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Maternal Child Health Research Program, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; ...

Correspondence to Dr Andrew Jordan Sun, Departments of General Surgery and Urology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305, USA; ajsun{at}stanford.edu Background Resident ...

3 Center for Health Services Research, Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, Washington, USA Correspondence to Dr C Craig Blackmore, Center for Health Services Research, Virginia Mason Medical ...