Background Peripheral venous catheters (PVCs) are ubiquitous in hospitals, yet phlebitis remains common despite ...
Introduction Monitoring hospital mortality rates is widely recommended. However, the number of preventable deaths remains uncertain with estimates in England ranging from 840 to 40 000 per year, these ...
Problem: Sliding scale insulin (SSI) is frequently used for inpatient management of hyperglycemia and is associated with a large number of medication errors and adverse events including hypoglycemia ...
Introduction: Effective feedback from incident reporting systems in healthcare is essential if organisations are to learn from failures in the delivery of care. Despite the wide-scale development and ...
Patient safety has become an international priority with major research programmes being carried out in the USA, UK, and elsewhere. The challenge is how to organize research efforts that will produce ...
3 Health Services Research Unit, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK Correspondence to: Professor M Eccles, Professor of Clinical Effectiveness, Centre for Health Services Research, 21 Claremont ...
3 General Surgery, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, California, USA Correspondence to Dr Greg D Sacks, Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los ...
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 ...
3 Nursing Research Institute, St. Vincent's & Mater Health Sydney and Australian Catholic University, Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Australia 4 Faculty of Pharmacy, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia ...
Correspondence to: Dr M A Mohammed Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK; m.a.mohammedbham.ac.uk Continuous improvement in health care and ...
Correspondence to Dr Cecilia Vindrola-Padros, Department of Applied Health Research, University College London, 1-19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 7HB, UK; c.vindrola{at}ucl.ac.uk The use of embedded ...
Correspondence to Dr Thomas H Payne, UW Medicine Information Technology Services, Box 359968, 325 Ninth Ave, Seattle, WA 98104-2499, USA; tpayne{at}u.washington.edu I have several reactions to this ...
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