More than 300 million patients undergo surgery worldwide each year. Pain associated with
these procedures is associated with short-and long-term negative sequelae for patients …

Introduction Process mapping provides insight into systems and processes in which
improvement interventions are introduced and is seen as useful in healthcare quality …

Background This paper examines the relationship between selected motivation factors that
affect the attitude to work among medical doctors at public hospitals and the organizational …

Background Consensus about the definition and treatment of oligometastatic
oesophagogastric cancer is lacking. Objective To assess the definition and treatment of …

Objective To analyse factors affecting variations in the observed quality of antenatal and sick-
child care in primary-care facilities in seven African countries. Methods We pooled nationally …

Skin cancer is a growing global problem and a significant health and economic burden.
Despite the practical necessity for skin cancer to be managed in primary care settings, little …

Background Between 2006 and 2008 the enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) program
was implemented in colonic surgery in one-third of all hospitals in the Netherlands (n= 33) …

Background: High-quality rehabilitation care following spinal cord injury or disease (SCI/D)
is critical for optimizing neurorecovery and long-term health outcomes. This manuscript …

Background Assessment of clinical variation has attracted increasing interest in health
systems internationally due to growing awareness about better value and appropriate health …

Rationale We performed a scoping review of informatics core literature about medical
practice variation (MPV) as an agile summary of the subject in our field. Materials and …