1 Staff Specialist, Department of Anaesthesia, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woodville, South Australia, Australia 2 Senior Staff Specialist, Department of Anaesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Medications continue to represent a major cause of harm, both in inpatients and outpatients and in adults and children. In a recent large study, medications were the leading cause of harm in inpatient ...

One of the major challenges facing those who are called upon to investigate adverse events, not only in medicine but in any field, is understanding how knowledge of the outcome of an adverse event ...

Background Healthcare organisations often fail to harvest and make use of the ‘soft intelligence’ about safety and quality concerns held by their own personnel. We aimed to examine the role of formal ...

Introduction Physician burnout is related to patient safety and quality of care. Female physicians face unique challenges which may contribute to higher physician task load (PTL). We investigated the ...

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 of medication administration is a safety practice used in hospitals around the world. Independence is recommended as the key to effectiveness. Independent double-checking ...

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 ...