Introduction Duplicate medical records occur when a single patient is assigned multiple medical record numbers within an ...
Background While the incidence of hospital adverse events appeared to be declining before 2019, the COVID-19 pandemic may ...
Variability and persistent gaps in reporting have been consistently observed across studies evaluating adverse events in healthcare, dating back to the early days of the patient safety movement.
Background Double checking medication administration in hospitals is often standard practice, particularly for high-risk drugs, yet its effectiveness in reducing medication administration errors (MAEs ...
Correspondence to Dr Ranjith Kamity, Pediatrics, NYU Winthrop Hospital, Mineola NY 11501, New York, USA; ranjith.kamity{at}nyulangone.org Background Central line-associated bloodstream infections ...
4 School of Biomedical Informatics, University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, Houson, Texas, USA 5 National Center for Cognitive Informatics and Decision Making in Healthcare, University ...
1 Department of Biomedical Informatics, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA 2 Division of Geriatric Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, ...
Evaluating the effects of increasing nursing numbers on quality of newborn care in understaffed neonatal units in Kenya: a prospective intervention study ...
3 Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia Correspondence to Dr David M Studdert, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, 207 ...
Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics (LIME), Medical Management Centre (MMC), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden Correspondence to Susanne Ullström, Department of Learning, ...
Correspondence to Dr S Ryan Greysen, Division of Hospital Medicine, UCSF, 533 Parnassus Ave, UC Hall, Suite 127A, San Francisco, California 94143, USA; ryan.greysen{at}ucsf.edu Importance Patient ...
Background There are increasing efforts to include equity in all quality improvement (QI) initiatives. A comprehensive framework to embed equity in QI has been lacking, which acts as a barrier to the ...