3 Health Services Research Unit, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK Correspondence to: Professor M Eccles, Professor of Clinical Effectiveness, Centre for Health Services Research, 21 Claremont ...

1 Division of General Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Partners HealthCare System, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA Correspondence to: Dr R Kaushal, Division of General ...

The importance of learning from medical error has recently received increasing emphasis. This paper focuses on prescribing errors and argues that, while learning from ...

3 Medical Decision Making, J10-S, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands Correspondence to Dr Leti van Bodegom-Vos, Department of Medical Decision Making, Leiden University Medical ...

‘The Problem with…’ series covers controversial topics related to efforts to improve healthcare quality, including widely recommended, but deceptively difficult strategies for improvement and ...

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 ...

Objective To understand how lean thinking has been put into practice in healthcare and how it has worked. Design A realist literature review. Data sources The authors systematically searched for ...

1 School of Pharmacy, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand 2 Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand Background: In ...

1 Centre for Public Policy & Management, Department of Management, University of St Andrews, Fife, UK 2 Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, School of Health Sciences, Medical School, ...

One major difference between historical and nonhistorical judgment is that the historical judge typically knows how things turned out. In Experiment 1, receipt of such outcome knowledge was found to ...

Department of Anesthesiology and the Duke University Human Simulation and Patient Safety Center, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA Correspondence to: Melanie C Wright PhD ...

Objective Indicators based on hospital administrative data have potential for misclassification error, especially if they rely on clinical detail that may not be well recorded in the data. We applied ...