Adverse drug events continue to be the single most frequent source of healthcare mishaps, continually placing patients at risk of injury. This is not unexpected, given that drug treatment is the most ...
1 Centre for Patient Safety and Service Quality (CPSSQ), Division of Surgery and Cancer, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK 2 Centre for Medication Safety ...
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 ...
Background Effective communication is critical for patient safety. One potential threat to communication in the operating room is incivility. Although examined in other industries, little has been ...
Correspondence to Dr David M Shahian, Department of Surgery, Center for Quality and Safety, Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit St, Boston, MA 02114, USA; dshahian{at}partners.org Healthcare ...
3 School of Medicine, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand 4 Harvard Medical School, Center for Medical Simulation, Boston, Massachusetts, United States 5 Harvard Medical School, Brigham and ...
Centre for Quality of Care Research, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands M Ouwens, Centre for Quality of Care Research (KWAZO 117), Radboud University Nijmegen ...
Background The outcomes of elective surgery in public versus Independent Sector Healthcare Providers (ISHPs) are a matter of policy relevance and theoretical interest. Methods Retrospective study of ...
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.
Introduction Patients who had a stroke often confront the trade-off between timely care at nearby hospitals and potentially higher quality but more distant care. Evidence remains limited on whether ...
Background Dementia increases the risk of adverse outcomes during hospitalisation, underscoring the need for system-level strategies. In 2016, Japan introduced Dementia Care Add-on 1 (DCA1), a ...
Background Diagnostic errors remain a significant challenge in healthcare, with cognitive biases, particularly availability bias, playing a critical role. While previous studies focused on controlled ...
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