5 Director of the Centre for Research in Evidence-based Practice, Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Bond University, Headington, UK Correspondence to Professor Mary Dixon-Woods, Department of ...

Dr K Walshe, senior research fellow, Health Services Management Centre, University of Birmingham, Park House, 40 Edgbaston Park Road, Birmingham B15 2RT, UK Adverse events—“instances which indicate or ...

Social Science Applied to Healthcare Improvement Research Group, Department of Health Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK Correspondence to Professor Mary Dixon-Woods, ...

1 Department of Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 2 Department of Pharmacy, Unit of Pharmacotherapy and Pharmaceutical Care, ...

3 Institute of Medical Education Research, Rotterdam, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam Correspondence to Professor Pat Croskerry, Division of Medical Education, Dalhousie University, ...

Patients, clinicians and managers all want to be reassured that their healthcare organisation is safe. But there is no consensus about what we mean when we ask whether a healthcare organisation is ...

Objective Hospital-acquired pressure injuries are localised skin injuries that cause significant mortality and are costly. Nursing best practices prevent pressure injuries, including time-consuming, ...

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 ...

Quality Literature Program, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice; Office of Research and Innovation in Medical Education, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire, ...

Complex, well defended, high technology systems are subject to rare but usually catastrophic organisational accidents in which a variety of contributing factors combine to breach the many barriers and ...

Objectives To systematically review the peer-reviewed literature on interruptions in healthcare settings to determine the state of the science and to identify the gaps in research. Methods Inclusion ...

Correspondence to Dr Jaap F Hamming, Department of Surgery, Leiden University Medical Center, Albinusdreef 2, 2333 ZA, Leiden, The Netherlands; J.F.Hamming{at}lumc.nl ‘The problem with…’ series covers ...