Objective: This study determined the incidence, type, nature, preventability and impact of adverse events (AEs) among hospitalised patients and potentially preventable deaths in Dutch hospitals.
Introduction National Health Service hospitals and government agencies are increasingly using mortality rates to monitor the quality of inpatient care. Mortality and Morbidity (M&M) meetings, ...
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 ...
1 Pharmaceutical Health Services Research Department, University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, Baltimore, Maryland, USA 2 Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Maryland ...
Use of colour-coded labels for intravenous high-risk medications and lines to improve patient safety
The Cognitive Technologies Laboratory, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA Correspondence to Nurit Porat, Hadassah University Medical Center, Ein Kerem, PO Box 12000, Jerusalem 91120, Israel ...
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 ...
4 Center for Outcomes Research, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA 5 Center for Health Outcomes and ...
Background The association of nursing staffing with patient outcomes has primarily been studied by comparing high to low staffed hospitals, raising concern other factors may account for observed ...
Correspondence to Professor David Reeves, NIHR School for Primary Care Research, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, The University of Manchester Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, ...
Geneva University Hospitals, Department of Anaesthesiology, Pharmacology and Intensive Care, Anaesthesiology Service, Geneva, Switzerland P Garnerin, Geneva University Hospitals, Anaesthesiology ...
Background Search engines often serve as a primary resource for patients to obtain drug information. However, the search engine market is rapidly changing due to the introduction of artificial ...
Dual process theory (DPT) and the intertwined concepts of heuristics and biases, popularised by Kahneman's book Thinking Fast and Slow, are widely discussed models for analysing decision-making ...
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