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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
1 University of Technology Sydney, Centre for Health Communication, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 2 HSPIB, NSW Ministry of Health, North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 3 Emergency Department, ...
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 ...