Objective Overconfidence is an important source of medical error. This review analyses experimental studies of confidence in ...
Statistical process control (SPC) charts provide a natural approach to analysing time series data for healthcare quality ...
More than 20 years since a landmark study1 documented hospitalised patients were more likely to die when their nurse cared for too many patients at a time, hundreds of rigorously conducted studies in ...
Background Literature depicts differences in ethical decision-making (EDM) between countries and intensive care units (ICU). Objectives To better conceptualise EDM climate in the ICU and to validate a ...
Background Valproate exposure during pregnancy causes major congenital malformations in 11% and neurodevelopmental disorders in 30–40% of exposed children. Despite regulatory interventions, including ...
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Introduction: Care home residents are at particular risk from medication errors, and our objective was to determine the prevalence and potential harm of prescribing, monitoring, dispensing and ...
Ten years ago, the Institute of Medicine reported alarming data on the scope and impact of medical errors in the US and called for national efforts to address this problem. While efforts to improve ...
Centre for Safety Research, Department of Psychology, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands Correspondence to: P Hudson Centre for Safety Research, Department of Psychology, Leiden University, Leiden ...
Correspondence to Dr Rishi Sikka, Advocate Health Care, 3075 Highland Avenue, Suite 600, Downers Grove, Il 60515, USA; rishi.sikka{at}advocatehealth.com In 2008, Donald Berwick and colleagues provided ...
Background Good outcomes for in-hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA) depend on a skilled resuscitation team, prompt initiation of high-quality cardiopulmonary resuscitation and defibrillation, and ...
2 Professor of General Practice, Department of General Practice, University of Antwerp, Universiteitsplein 1, 2610 Antwerp, Belgium 3 Professor of Quality in Health Care, Clinical Governance Research ...
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