Background Healthcare-associated infections due to multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) remain a high priority patient ...

Institute and Outpatient Clinic for Occupational, Social, and Environmental Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany Correspondence to Matthias Weigl, Institute and Outpatient ...

3 Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK 4 Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK Objectives To develop and validate a tool to predict the risk of an older adult ...

Correspondence to Dr David Cumin, Department of Anaesthesiology, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland 1142, New Zealand; d.cumin{at}auckland.ac.nz Background Communication of clinically ...

The clinical microsystem puts medical error and harm reduction into the broader context of safety and quality of care by providing a framework to assess and evaluate ...

1 Department of Family and Community Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA 2 Division of Biostatistics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA 3 Department ...

The field of patient safety has focused on acute adverse events. However, hospitalised patients face regular stressors, such as sleep deprivation and malnutrition, which frequently predispose them to ...

Background Although well-established principles exist for improving the timeliness and efficiency of care, many organisations struggle to achieve more than small-scale, localised gains. Where care ...

Correspondence to Professor Jeffrey Braithwaite, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia; jeffrey.braithwaite{at}mq.edu.au Background Bronchiolitis ...

Correspondence to Professor Rosalind Raine, Department of Applied Health Research, University College London, London WC1E 7HB, UK; r.raine{at}ucl.ac.uk Objective Multidisciplinary team (MDT) meetings ...

3 Center for Education in Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA 4 Institute for Medical Education, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, ...

Mistake proofing uses changes in the physical design of processes to reduce human error. It can be used to change designs in ways that prevent errors from occurring ...