Context Health consumer escalation of acute deterioration response systems are now widely available to help facilitate early recognition and response to acute deterioration in hospitals. Yet, a ...
Background Healthcare patient safety investigations inappropriately focus on individual culpability and the target of ...
Ten years ago, the Institute of Medicine reported alarming data on the scope and impact of medical errors in the US and called for national efforts to address this problem. While efforts to improve ...
Background The association of nursing staffing with patient outcomes has primarily been studied by comparing high to low staffed hospitals, raising concern other factors may account for observed ...
School of Computing and Information Engineering, Faculty of Computing and Engineering, University of Ulster at Coleraine, Coleraine, UK Professor T P Young, School of Information Systems, Computing ...
Correspondence to Ms Eileen Relihan, Medication Safety Office, Chief Executive Offices, St James's Hospital, James's Street, Dublin 8, Ireland; erelihan{at}stjames.ie Design and participants Pre- and ...
Evaluating the effects of increasing nursing numbers on quality of newborn care in understaffed neonatal units in Kenya: a prospective intervention study ...
1 James M. Anderson Center for Health Systems Excellence, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA 2 Division of Hospital Medicine, James M. Anderson Center for Health ...
Introduction Efforts to enact nurse staffing legislation often lack timely, local evidence about how specific policies could directly impact the public’s health. Despite numerous studies indicating ...
The physical environment has a significant impact on health and safety; however, hospitals have not been designed with the explicit goal of enhancing patient safety through facility design. In April ...
Background Voluntary clinician engagement in audit and feedback (A&F) initiatives is often suboptimal. We compared a range of characteristics between physicians who voluntarily engaged and those who ...
Correspondence to: Dr A N Healey Clinical Safety Research, Imperial College London, Department of Surgical Oncology and Technology, 10th Floor QEQM, St Mary’s Hospital, Praed Street, Paddington, ...
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