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 ...
NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence in Patient Safety, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia Dr S A Jeffcott, NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence in Patient Safety, Department of Epidemiology and ...
Background Patient complaints provide a complementary lens on surgical safety, yet prior analyses have been small and specialty specific. We aimed to characterise themes, perioperative processes, ...
Objectives To determine whether in patients with chronic disease a patient-held medical record (PHR), compared to usual care, improves clinical care, patient outcomes or satisfaction. Design ...
Background: Healthcare providers work increasingly under a variety of shift work systems to cover the continuous care required by patients. However, the effects of shift work on patient and provider ...
1 Department of Medicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, USA 2 Department of Public Health, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, USA 3 Department of ...
Background Adverse event surveillance approaches underestimate the prevalence of harmful diagnostic errors (DEs) related to hospital care. Methods We conducted a single-centre, retrospective cohort ...
1 Department of Medicine, The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA 2 The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, The Geisel School of Medicine at ...
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 Edward Etchells, Department of Medicine, 76 Grenville St, Women's College Hospital, Toronto, ON M5S 1B2, Canada; edward.etchells{at}wchospital.ca For instance, suppose you are ...
Chronic conditions are increasingly the primary concern of healthcare systems throughout the world. In response to this challenge, the World Health Organization has joined with the MacColl Institute ...
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