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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 ...
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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 ...
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Work system design for patient safety: the SEIPS model
1 Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA 2 Center for Quality and Productivity Improvement, College of ...
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Research designs for studies evaluating the effectiveness of change and improvement strategies
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 ...
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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 ...
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Malpractice claims related to diagnostic errors in the hospital
Background Little is known about the incidence or significance of diagnostic error in the inpatient setting. We used a malpractice claims database to examine ...
qualitysafety.bmj5d
Integrating patient safety into the clinical microsystem
Healthcare institutions continue to face challenges in providing safe patient care in increasingly complex organisational and regulatory environments while striving to maintain financial viability.
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Impact of short evidence summaries in discharge letters on adherence of practitioners to discharge medication. A cluster-randomised controlled trial
Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, CLARITY Research Group, Clinical Advancement through Research and Information Translation, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada ...
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What to expect when you're evaluating healthcare improvement: a concordat approach to managing collaboration and uncomfortable realities
Evaluation of improvement initiatives in healthcare is essential to establishing whether interventions are effective and to understanding how and why they work in order to enable replication. Although ...
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Patient involvement in patient safety: How willing are patients to participate?
Clinical Safety Research Unit, Department of Surgery and Cancer, St. Mary's Hospital, London, UK Correspondence to Rachel Davis, Clinical Safety Research Unit, Department of Surgery and Cancer, 10 th ...
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An electronic trigger based on care escalation to identify preventable adverse events in hospitalised patients
Background Methods to identify preventable adverse events typically have low yield and efficiency. We refined the methods of Institute of Healthcare Improvement’s Global Trigger Tool (GTT) application ...
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Reducing the value/burden ratio: a key to high performance in value-based care
The healthcare delivered in high-income countries is riddled with defects in value. One in 10 patients experiences harm when receiving medical care, while nearly 13% of health expenditures are spent ...