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 ...
Background In situ simulation (ISS) has seen broad use in academic emergency medicine (EM). Studies with limited clinical ...
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 ...
Importance Quality improvement efforts on general medical wards are often driven by organisational or clinician priorities, ...
Correspondence to Professor Rosalind Raine, Department of Applied Health Research, University College London, London WC1E 7HB, UK; r.raine{at}ucl.ac.uk Objective Multidisciplinary team (MDT) meetings ...
Background Clinical encounters with patients who display challenging behaviours (eg, rude, demanding) are increasingly common in emergency departments and can heighten negative emotions, compromise ...
The WHO Surgical Safety Checklist (SSC) has been a cornerstone of surgical safety for nearly 20 years—endorsed as a required or recommended standard and adopted by hospitals worldwide.1 However, ...
Healthcare organisations invest substantial effort in redesigning systems, implementing new technologies and improving quality and safety processes. Comparatively less attention is paid to how ...
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 ...
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 ...
If the core aim of a healthcare system is to minimise both illness and treatment burden while reducing the costs of care delivery, then we must accept, however reluctantly, that our efforts are ...
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 ...
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