qualitysafety.bmj5d
Investigators are human too: outcome bias and perceptions of individual culpability in patient safety incident investigations
Background Healthcare patient safety investigations inappropriately focus on individual culpability and the target of ...
qualitysafety.bmj2d
Problem with the existing reporting standards for adverse event and medical error research
The Enhancing the Quality and Transparency of Health Research (EQUATOR) Network indexes over 600 reporting guidelines designed to improve the reproducibility of manuscripts across medical fields and ...
qualitysafety.bmj13d
Table 3
At least one error at any stage 73.4 (54.4 to 89.7) No error made at any stage 26.6 (10.3 to 45.6) With error-checking at each stage At least one error at any stage ...
qualitysafety.bmj2d
Measuring patient safety climate: a review of surveys
1 Department of Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH, USA 2 Departments of Pediatrics and of Internal Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH, USA 3 Veterans ...
qualitysafety.bmj4d
Safety measurement and monitoring in healthcare: a framework to guide clinical teams and healthcare organisations in maintaining safety
Patients, clinicians and managers all want to be reassured that their healthcare organisation is safe. But there is no consensus about what we mean when we ask whether a healthcare organisation is ...
qualitysafety.bmj3d
Unintentional non-adherence: can a spoon full of resilience help the medicine go down?
2 Department of Practice and Policy, Centre for Medication Safety and Service Quality, UCL School of Pharmacy, London, UK 3 Faculty of Medicine, Centre for Haematology (Honorary Research Associate), ...
qualitysafety.bmj8d
Addressing the challenges of knowledge co-production in quality improvement: learning from the implementation of the researcher-in-residence model
The concept of knowledge co-production is used in health services research to describe partnerships (which can involve researchers, practitioners, managers, commissioners or service users) with the ...
qualitysafety.bmj11d
Finding patients before they crash: the next major opportunity to improve patient safety
Correspondence to Dr David W Bates, Division of General Internal Medicine, The Center for Patient Safety Research and Practice, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 1620 Tremont St, Boston, MA 2120, USA; ...
qualitysafety.bmj11d
Cognitive interventions to reduce diagnostic error: a narrative review
4 School of Biomedical Informatics, University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, Houson, Texas, USA 5 National Center for Cognitive Informatics and Decision Making in Healthcare, University ...
qualitysafety.bmj4d
Assessing safety culture: guidelines and recommendations
Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA Correspondence to: Associate Professor P J Pronovost Department of Anaesthesiology and ...
qualitysafety.bmj8d
Demystifying theory and its use in improvement
The role and value of theory in improvement work in healthcare has been seriously underrecognised. We join others in proposing that more informed use of theory can strengthen improvement programmes ...