Background Intraoperative hypothermia can lead to adverse clinical outcomes and avoidable financial and environmental costs. Environmentally preferable warming practices have been identified, ...
Introduction Duplicate medical records occur when a single patient is assigned multiple medical record numbers within an ...
1 Duke Patient Safety Center, Duke University Health System, Durham, North Carolina, USA Correspondence to Dr Stephanie P Schwartz, Department of Pediatrics, Duke Children's Hospital and Health Center ...
Background Patient complaints provide a complementary lens on surgical safety, yet prior analyses have been small and specialty specific. We aimed to characterise themes, perioperative processes, ...
Background Diagnostic errors remain a significant challenge in healthcare, with cognitive biases, particularly availability bias, playing a critical role. While previous studies focused on controlled ...
Methods Data sources were identified using database searches, with additional reference and hand searching. Eligibility criteria were applied to all studies identified, resulting in a total of 24 ...
Correspondence to: Dr Johan Thor Medical Management Centre, Berzelius väg 3, 5th floor, Karolinska Institutet, S-171 77 Stockholm, Sweden; johan.thor{at}ki.se Objective: To systematically review the ...
3 National Institute for Health Research Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (NIHR CLAHRC) Wessex, Southampton, UK Objective To determine the association between daily ...
Sepsis and antimicrobial stewardship programmes coexist in tension, as they can appear to have apparently opposing messages around antimicrobial prescribing. In the era of increasing antimicrobial ...
Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics (LIME), Medical Management Centre (MMC), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden Correspondence to Susanne Ullström, Department of Learning, ...
Background Double checking medication administration in hospitals is often standard practice, particularly for high-risk drugs, yet its effectiveness in reducing medication administration errors (MAEs ...
1 Centre for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Too often, however, improvement teams go through the motions of PDSA cycles without really ...
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