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; ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The continued use of low-value cancer screening practices not only represents healthcare waste but also a potential cascade of invasive diagnostic procedures and patient anxiety and distress. While ...

‘We need bold, fundamental change that gets at the roots of the burnout crisis.’- US Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy, MD, MBA. The key is understanding what is suboptimal. Their main findings from 124 ...