Context Health consumer escalation of acute deterioration response systems are now widely available to help facilitate early recognition and response to acute deterioration in hospitals. Yet, a ...
Background Healthcare patient safety investigations inappropriately focus on individual culpability and the target of ...
Introduction Duplicate medical records occur when a single patient is assigned multiple medical record numbers within an instance of an electronic health record, potentially associated with fragmented ...
Background To describe the diagnoses of people who present to the emergency department (ED) with low back pain (LBP), the proportion of people with a lumbar spine condition who arrived by ambulance, ...
In a companion paper, we proposed that cognitive debiasing is a skill essential in developing sound clinical reasoning to mitigate the incidence of diagnostic failure. We reviewed the origins of ...
2 Department of Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA 3 Department of Surgery, Olive View-UCLA Medical Center, Sylmar, California, USA Correspondence to Dr ...
3 University Düsseldorf, Medical Faculty, Institute for Occupational Medicine and Social Medicine, Düsseldorf, Germany Correspondence to Dr Matthias Weigl, Institute and Outpatient Clinic for ...
Background Effective communication is critical for patient safety. One potential threat to communication in the operating room is incivility. Although examined in other industries, little has been ...
Correspondence to Dr Padageshwar R Sunkara, Department of Internal Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston Salem, North Carolina, USA; padageshwar{at}gmail.com Background Effective ...
Background Although widely recommended as an effective approach to quality improvement (QI), the Plan–Do–Study–Act (PDSA) cycle method can be challenging to use, and low fidelity of published accounts ...
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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