Introduction Duplicate medical records occur when a single patient is assigned multiple medical record numbers within an ...
Background While the incidence of hospital adverse events appeared to be declining before 2019, the COVID-19 pandemic may ...
Variability and persistent gaps in reporting have been consistently observed across studies evaluating adverse events in healthcare, dating back to the early days of the patient safety movement.
Background Double checking medication administration in hospitals is often standard practice, particularly for high-risk drugs, yet its effectiveness in reducing medication administration errors (MAEs ...
3 Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia Correspondence to Dr David M Studdert, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, 207 ...
Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics (LIME), Medical Management Centre (MMC), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden Correspondence to Susanne Ullström, Department of Learning, ...
Correspondence to Dr S Ryan Greysen, Division of Hospital Medicine, UCSF, 533 Parnassus Ave, UC Hall, Suite 127A, San Francisco, California 94143, USA; ryan.greysen{at}ucsf.edu Importance Patient ...
Embracing practice-based quality improvement (QI) represents one way for clinicians to improve the care they provide to patients while also improving their own professional satisfaction. But engaging ...
1 Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA 2 Division of General Internal Medicine, Kyoto University Hospital, Kyoto, Japan 3 Harvard ...
Background Focusing on interprofessional relations in team performance to improve patient safety is an emerging priority in obstetrics. A review of the literature found little information on roles and ...
Methods Data sources were identified using database searches, with additional reference and hand searching. Eligibility criteria were applied to all studies identified, resulting in a total of 24 ...
Centre for Health Systems and Safety Research, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Correspondence to Dr Joanne Callen, Centre for Health Systems and Safety Research, ...