A wide variety of research studies suggest that breakdowns in the diagnostic process result in a staggering toll of harm and patient deaths. These include autopsy studies, case reviews, surveys of ...
Correspondence to Dr Ian Leistikow, Medical Specialist Care, Dutch Healthcare Inspectorate, PO Box 2518, 6401DA Heerlen, The Netherlands; ip.leistikow{at}igz.nl The purpose of these systems is also ...
Correspondence to Professor Paul Batalden, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Lebanon, NH 03766, USA; paul.batalden{at}gmail.com Our interactions during the Colloquium ...
1 Department of Health Sciences, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK 2 NHS Centre for Reviews and Dissemination, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK Correspondence to: Dr S Gilbody Senior Lecturer ...
R G Thomson, Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, J Lally, Research Associate Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, School of Health Sciences, Newcastle University, Medical School, ...
Correspondence to: A Clarke Institute of Community Health Sciences, Queen Mary, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London E1 4NS; a.e.clarkeqmul.ac.uk The value of readmission to ...
Correspondence to Dr Craig G Gunderson, Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA; craig.gunderson{at}va.gov Background ...
1 Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA 2 Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA Correspondence to: Assistant Professor B-T Karsh ...
Centre for Patient Safety and Surgical Quality, Department of Biosurgery and Surgical Technology, Imperial College London, St Mary's Hospital, London, UK Correspondence to Sonal Arora, Department of ...
Correspondence to Dr Milisa Manojlovich, School of Nursing, University of Michigan School of Nursing, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA; mmanojlo{at}umich.edu Background Despite decades of research and ...
Objective: To determine whether the use of verbal descriptors suggested by the European Union (EU) such as “common” (1–10% frequency) and “rare” (0.01–0.1%) effectively conveys the level of risk of ...
Monroe Carell Jr Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt, Nashville, Tennessee, USA Correspondence to Dr Paul D Hain, Monroe Carell Jr Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt, Suite 2516, 2200 Children's Way, ...