3 Division of General Internal Medicine and Patient Safety Service, Sunnybrook & Women’s College Health Sciences Centre and Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ...

1 Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, School of Health, Community and Education Studies, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Background Healthcare is a series of complex, interwoven ...

Correspondence to Dr Joshua M Pevnick, Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Health System, 8700 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, California 90048, USA; ...

Correspondence to: Dr A J Lankshear Department of Health Sciences, Seebohm-Rowntree Building, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK; al25york.ac.uk Objectives: To assess the effectiveness of the ...

Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA Correspondence to: Associate Professor P J Pronovost Department of Anaesthesiology and ...

1 Centre for Clinical Governance Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia 2 Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Faculty of Medicine, University of New ...

The evolution of the concepts and processes underpinning the Australian Patient Safety Foundation's systems over the last 15 years are traced. An ideal system should have the following attributes: an ...

Education and training are important elements in patient safety, both as a potential contributing factor to risks and hazards of healthcare associated injury or harm and as an intervention to be used ...

Correspondence to Dr Naomi Bardach, Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco, 3333 California St. Suite 265, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA; naomi.bardach{at}ucsf.edu Objective ...

1 Field Office of VA’s National Center for Patient Safety, White River Junction, VT; Veterans Health Administration; The Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, ...

1 Department of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA 2 Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut, USA 3 ...

4 Central Nursing Office, Mater Adult Hospital, South Brisbane, Australia 5 Mater Adult, Women's and Children's Hospital, South Brisbane Australia 6 Mater Adult Hospital, South Brisbane, Australia ...