De-implementation of low-value clinical practices requires changes in both documentation and clinician behaviour, yet ...
Importance Patient safety and systems integration (PSSI) simulations help uncover hazards that jeopardise patient safety. Using direct observation, video analysis and systems-focused debriefing, they ...
Background Low-value practices, defined as tests or treatments that are used in practice despite not being supported by evidence, account for 20%–30% of healthcare expenditure; moreover, some ...
Correspondence to Pernilla Dillner, Department of Women's and Children's Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm 171 77, Sweden; pernilla.dillner{at}ki.se Background Adverse events (AEs) cause ...
Correspondence to Dr Eric J Thomas, McGovern Medical School at The University Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77030, USA; eric.thomas{at}uth.tmc.edu In this issue, Amalberti and ...
‘The Problem with…’ series covers controversial topics related to efforts to improve healthcare quality, including widely recommended, but deceptively difficult strategies for improvement and ...
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Introduction Patients are increasingly being thought of as central to patient safety. A small but growing body of work suggests that patients may have a role in reporting patient safety problems ...
1 Centre for Health Systems and Safety Research, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia 2 Radiofrequency Identification Applications Laboratory, ...
2 Department of Management, Technology, and Economics, Center for Organizational and Occupational Sciences, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland 3 Department of Anaesthesia and Swiss Center for Medical ...
Introduction: The frequency of adverse events in the operating theatre has been linked to the quality of teamwork and communication. Developing suitable measures of teamwork may play a role in ...
School of Computing and Information Engineering, Faculty of Computing and Engineering, University of Ulster at Coleraine, Coleraine, UK Professor T P Young, School of Information Systems, Computing ...