Objective Overconfidence is an important source of medical error. This review analyses experimental studies of confidence in ...
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Centre for Safety Research, Department of Psychology, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands Correspondence to: P Hudson Centre for Safety Research, Department of Psychology, Leiden University, Leiden ...
Correspondence to Dr Daren K Heyland, Medicine and Community Health and Epidemiology, Queen's University, Kingston General Hospital, Angada 4, 76 Stuart St, Kingston, ON, Canada K7L 2V7; ...
Background Surgical complications represent a significant cause of morbidity and mortality with the rate of major complications after inpatient surgery estimated at 3–17% in industrialised countries.
Introduction: Care home residents are at particular risk from medication errors, and our objective was to determine the prevalence and potential harm of prescribing, monitoring, dispensing and ...
Objective Hospital care comprises nearly a third of US healthcare expenditures. Fifteen to 20 per cent of this spending is considered to be potentially preventable. Risk prediction models have ...
Background Patient complaints are associated with adverse events and malpractice claims but underused in patient safety improvement. Objective To systematically evaluate the use of patient complaint ...
Background In eligible patients with acute ischaemic stroke, rapid revascularisation is crucial for good outcome. At our treatment centre, we had achieved and sustained a median door-to-needle time of ...
Department of Anesthesiology and the Duke University Human Simulation and Patient Safety Center, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA Correspondence to: MC Wright PhD Department ...
Correspondence to Dr Keith E Mandel, Independent Consultant/Advisor, Large-Scale Change, Quality Improvement, and Leader Development and Coaching, Perrysburg, Ohio, USA; keithmandel24{at}gmail.com ...
Most quality improvement or change management interventions are currently designed intuitively and their results are often disappointing. While improving the effectiveness of interventions requires ...
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