1 James M. Anderson Center for Health Systems Excellence, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA 2 Division of Hospital Medicine, James M. Anderson Center for Health ...
2 National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC) for North-West London, London, UK Correspondence to Michael J Taylor, Academic ...
Correspondence to Dr Alex Gillespie, Department of Social Psychology, London School of Economics, London WC2A 2AE, UK; A.T.Gillespie{at}lse.ac.uk Background Letters of complaint written by patients ...
3 Centre for Healthcare Resilience and Implementation Science, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, ...
It has been roughly 50 years since Jay Katz advocated for the involvement of patients in decision-making,1 yet making treatment decisions based on what matters to patients remains aspirational.
Objectives To estimate the number and burden of medication errors associated with prescription information transfer within the National Health Service (NHS) in England and the impact of implementing ...
Background: Learning from mistakes is key to maintaining and improving the quality of care in the NHS. This study investigates the willingness of healthcare professionals to report the mistakes of ...
Background The number of quality indicators for which clinicians need to record data is increasing. For many indicators, there are concerns about their efficacy. This study aimed to determine whether ...
4 Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA Correspondence to Dr Michael S Schechter, Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, ...
Methods Medline and EMBASE were searched for studies on intravenous medicines. The error rates of each stage were extracted. These, expert estimates, and error rates ...
Objective—To develop a practitioner led definition of a prescribing error for use in quantitative studies of their incidence. Design—Two stage Delphi technique ...