At least one error at any stage 73.4 (54.4 to 89.7) No error made at any stage 26.6 (10.3 to 45.6) With error-checking at each stage At least one error at any stage ...

1 Department of Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH, USA 2 Departments of Pediatrics and of Internal Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH, USA 3 Veterans ...

1 Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA 2 Center for Quality and Productivity Improvement, College of ...

3 Health Services Research Unit, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK Correspondence to: Professor M Eccles, Professor of Clinical Effectiveness, Centre for Health Services Research, 21 Claremont ...

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1 Section of General Internal Medicine, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 2 Section of General Internal Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 3 Boston ...

Healthcare institutions continue to face challenges in providing safe patient care in increasingly complex organisational and regulatory environments while striving to maintain financial viability.

Background Little is known about the incidence or significance of diagnostic error in the inpatient setting. We used a malpractice claims database to examine ...

1 Center for Health Services Research in Prmary Care, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA 2 Geriatrics Research, Education and Clinical Center, Veterans Affairs Medical Center ...

Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, CLARITY Research Group, Clinical Advancement through Research and Information Translation, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada ...

Correspondence to Dr Daniel Escobar, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Daniel.Escobar{at}pennmedicine.upenn.edu Over a century after Semmelweis introduced the ...

Background Methods to identify preventable adverse events typically have low yield and efficiency. We refined the methods of Institute of Healthcare Improvement’s Global Trigger Tool (GTT) application ...