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 data suggest a dual paradigm model to assess the efficacy of these educational ...
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, and little is known about patient or caregiver priorities. Objective To ...
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 ...
1 National Nursing Research Unit, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, King's College London, London, UK 2 Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, King's College London, ...
Failures in communication and information transfer across the surgical care pathway: interview study
Centre for Patient Safety and Surgical Quality, Department of Biosurgery and Surgical Technology, Imperial College London, St Mary's Hospital, London, UK Correspondence to Sonal Arora, Department of ...
Correspondence to Dr Ken Catchpole, Surgical Safety and Human Factors Research, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Suite 302, 8797 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA; ken.catchpole{at}cshs.org Human ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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