Introduction Patients who had a stroke often confront the trade-off between timely care at nearby hospitals and potentially ...

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 ...

In 2026, artificial intelligence (AI) systems are deployed at scale to support clinical decision-making. Algorithms detect cardiac arrhythmias from ECGs, classify skin lesions from photographs and ...

Objective Diagnostic delay is a pervasive patient safety problem that disproportionately affects historically underserved populations. We aim to systematically examine and synthesise published ...

Objectives: To assess awareness and use of the current incident reporting system and to identify factors inhibiting reporting of incidents in hospitals. Design, setting and participants: Anonymous ...

1 Professor and Head, Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, University of Adelaide and Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia 2 Senior Staff Specialist, Department of ...

1 Betsy Lehman Center for Patient Safety, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 2 Patient Safety and Quality Initiatives, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 3 Harvard Medical School ...

Introduction Barcode medication administration (BCMA) can, if poorly implemented, cause disrupted workflow, increased workload and cause medication errors. Further exploration is needed of the causes ...

Correspondence to Professor Ronen Rozenblum, Division of General Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02120, USA; RROZENBLUM{at}PARTNERS.ORG Social media usage has become a ...

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Background We previously reported reduction in the rate of hospitalisations with medication harm among older adults with our ‘Pharm2Pharm’ intervention, a pharmacist-led care transition and care ...

The traditional separation of the producers of research evidence in academia from the users of that evidence in healthcare organisations has not succeeded in closing the gap between what is known ...