A wide variety of research studies suggest that breakdowns in the diagnostic process result in a staggering toll of harm and patient deaths. These include autopsy studies, case reviews, surveys of ...
1 NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Patient Safety, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia 2 The Alfred Hospital, National Trauma Research Institute, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia ...
Correspondence to Dr Ian Leistikow, Medical Specialist Care, Dutch Healthcare Inspectorate, PO Box 2518, 6401DA Heerlen, The Netherlands; ip.leistikow{at}igz.nl The purpose of these systems is also ...
Correspondence to Atle Fretheim, Global Health Unit, Norwegian Knowledge Centre for the Health Services, P.O. Box 7004, St. Olavs, Oslo 0130, Norway; atle.fretheim{at}nokc.no Time series plots are ...
Background Tools that proactively identify factors that contribute to accidents have been developed within high-risk industries. Although patients provide feedback on their experience of care in ...
Background Those working in healthcare today are challenged more than ever before to quickly and efficiently learn from data to improve their services and delivery of care. There is broad agreement ...
Correspondence to Dr Eduardo Salas, Department of Psychology, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA; eduardo.salas{at}rice.edu Front-line medical teams are experiencing unprecedented stressors as a ...
Healthcare managers, clinical researchers and individual patients (and their physicians) manage variation differently to achieve different ends. First, managers are primarily concerned with the ...
1 Centre of Research Excellence in Patient Safety, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Victoria, Australia 2 Centre for Health Policy, Programs and Economics, ...
Background Risk aversion among junior doctors that manifests as greater intervention (ordering of tests, diagnostic procedures and so on) has been proposed as one of the possible causes for increased ...
In 2005, draft guidelines were published for reporting studies of quality improvement interventions as the initial step in a consensus process for development of a more definitive version. This ...
Correspondence to Dr Alan J Card, Evidence-Based Health Solutions, LLC, PO Box 62, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA; alan.j.card{at}gmail.com ‘The Problem with…’ series covers controversial topics related to ...
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