3 Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK 4 Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK Objectives To develop and validate a tool to predict the risk of an older adult ...

Correspondence to Dr David Cumin, Department of Anaesthesiology, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland 1142, New Zealand; d.cumin{at}auckland.ac.nz Background Communication of clinically ...

The clinical microsystem puts medical error and harm reduction into the broader context of safety and quality of care by providing a framework to assess and evaluate ...

1 Department of Family and Community Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA 2 Division of Biostatistics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA 3 Department ...

The field of patient safety has focused on acute adverse events. However, hospitalised patients face regular stressors, such as sleep deprivation and malnutrition, which frequently predispose them to ...

Correspondence to Professor Jeffrey Braithwaite, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia; jeffrey.braithwaite{at}mq.edu.au Background Bronchiolitis ...

Correspondence to Professor Rosalind Raine, Department of Applied Health Research, University College London, London WC1E 7HB, UK; r.raine{at}ucl.ac.uk Objective Multidisciplinary team (MDT) meetings ...

3 Center for Education in Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA 4 Institute for Medical Education, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, ...

Mistake proofing uses changes in the physical design of processes to reduce human error. It can be used to change designs in ways that prevent errors from occurring ...

Centre for Outcomes Research and Effectiveness, Department of Psychology, University College London, UK Correspondence to: Professor S Michie Centre for Outcomes Research and Effectiveness, University ...

3 Department of Surgery, University of Chicago SImulation Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA Correspondence to Dr Jeanne M Farnan, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, 5841 S Maryland Ave, MC ...

Background The ability of medical teams to develop and maintain team situation awareness (team SA) is crucial for patient safety. Limited research has investigated team SA within clinical environments ...