Cultural competence and cultural humility have previously been framed as concepts reflecting the knowledge, skills and commitment to self-reflection concerning person-centred healthcare. Emerging ...

Background Improving paediatric diagnosis by addressing errors (Safety-I) is insufficient for diagnostic excellence. Resilience engineering’s approach to understanding adaptations to achieve success ...

Objective To understand patient and nurse views on usability, design, content, barriers and facilitators of hospital whiteboard utilisation in patient rooms. Design Multimethods study. Setting Adult ...

Objective The Prevention of Hospital Infections by Intervention and Training (PROHIBIT) project included a cluster-randomised, stepped wedge, controlled study to evaluate multiple strategies to ...

Centre for Quality of Care Research (WOK), University Medical Centre Nijmegen, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands Dr M E J L Hulscher, Centre for Quality of Care Research (WOK), University Medical ...

Clinical Safety Research Unit, St Mary’s Hospital, London, UK R Davis, Clinical Safety Research Unit, Department of Bio-Surgery and Surgical Technology, 10th Floor, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother ...

1 Division of Neonatology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA 2 Department of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA ...

Institute of Health Innovation, Centre for Clinical Governance Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Kensington, New South Wales, Australia David Greenfield, Institute of ...

Methods Medline and EMBASE were searched for studies on intravenous medicines. The error rates of each stage were extracted. These, expert estimates, and error rates ...

Background Standardised mortality ratios do not provide accurate measures of preventable mortality. This has generated interest in using case notes to assess the preventable component of mortality.

1 Children’s Hospital Boston, Boston, MA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; Center for Patient Safety in Neonatal Intensive Care, Burlington, VT, USA 2 Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, ...