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Quality and patient safety surveillance systems in healthcare settings: a rapid realist review

25 May 20264 min read0 viewsJournal Feed

GIST (Key Takeaways)

  • Objectives Despite extensive efforts in data collection, quality and safety measurement remains a significant global challenge, with limited understanding of how and under what conditions quality and patient safety surveillance systems function effectively.
  • With the aim of informing the development and effective functioning of quality and patient safety surveillance systems, a rapid realist review was conducted to develop a set of theories that address how, why, for whom and in what context quality and patient safety surveillance systems work.
  • Design Rapid realist review to inform recommendations and intervention design for the monitoring and evaluation phase of the QS Signals Project, reported according to Realist and Meta-narrative Evidence Syntheses: Evolving Standards (RAMESES) guidelines.
  • Data sources Initial programme theories were constructed based on data collected from key articles on quality and patient safety surveillance systems, consultation with an expert panel, informal meetings with a project team charged with developing a quality and patient safety surveillance system for maternal and infant health and a review of the project's planning documents.

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BMJ Open published a clinical update in Research Highlights on 25 May 2026.

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