Diagnostic delay, a type of diagnostic error, is the failure to establish an accurate and timely diagnosis; diagnostic delay ...

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Objectives: To conduct a multicentre study on adverse event and near miss reporting in the NHS and to explore the feasibility of creating a national system for collecting these data. Design: ...

Objectives To systematically review the peer-reviewed literature on interruptions in healthcare settings to determine the state of the science and to identify the gaps in research. Methods Inclusion ...

Correspondence to Eric J Thomas, University of Texas at Houston, Memorial Hermann Center for Healthcare Quality and Safety, 6410 Fannin, UPB 1100.45, Houston, TX 77030, USA; eric.thomas{at}uth.tmc.edu ...

Correspondence to Miss Michelle Halligan, The University of Western Ontario, Health and Rehabilitation Sciences Graduate Program, Elborn College, 1201 Western Road, London, ON, Canada, N6G 1H1; ...

1 Director, Quality & Productivity Laboratory, MIME Department, 334 Snell Engineering Center, 360 Huntington Avenue, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115, USA 2 Director, Quality Resource ...

Background Diagnostic error incurs enormous human and economic costs. The dual-process model reasoning provides a framework for understanding the diagnostic process ...

Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA Dr H E Wang, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, 230 McKee Place, Suite 400, Pittsburgh, PA ...

3 School of Medicine, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand 4 Harvard Medical School, Center for Medical Simulation, Boston, Massachusetts, United States 5 Harvard Medical School, Brigham and ...

4 Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Background Clinical information may be lost during the transfer of critically injured trauma patients from the emergency ...