Background Hospital incident reporting and patient concerns systems are widely used to detect and respond to patient harm.

A wide variety of research studies suggest that breakdowns in the diagnostic process result in a staggering toll of harm and patient deaths. These include autopsy studies, case reviews, surveys of ...

Correspondence to Dr Milisa Manojlovich, School of Nursing, University of Michigan School of Nursing, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA; mmanojlo{at}umich.edu Background Despite decades of research and ...

1 National Nursing Research Unit, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, King's College London, London, UK 2 Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, King's College London, ...

Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics (LIME), Medical Management Centre (MMC), Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden Correspondence to Susanne Ullström, Department of Learning, ...

Objectives: To conduct a multicentre study on adverse event and near miss reporting in the NHS and to explore the feasibility of creating a national system for collecting these data. Design: ...

University of Missouri Health System, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri, USA Correspondence to S D Scott, Office of Clinical Effectiveness, University of Missouri Health System, One ...

Correspondence to Dr Hardeep Singh, Houston VA HSR&D Center of Excellence, Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center and the Section of Health Services Research, Department of Medicine, ...

Healthcare managers, clinical researchers and individual patients (and their physicians) manage variation differently to achieve different ends. First, managers are primarily concerned with the ...

In 2005, draft guidelines were published for reporting studies of quality improvement interventions as the initial step in a consensus process for development of a more definitive version. This ...

1 Department of Health Sciences, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK 2 NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK Correspondence to: Dr S Gilbody Senior Lecturer ...

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