Background: Substantial expenditures on health care safety programs have been justified by
their goal of reducing health care associated–harm (adverse events), but adverse event …

Objectives To assess whether, compared with previous years, hospital care became safer in
2011/2012, expressing itself in a fall in preventable adverse event (AE) rates alongside …

Purpose–The aim of this review is to examine factors that may explain why other industries
are considered ultrasafe while progress toward preventing adverse events in health care is …

Although efforts to improve healthcare quality have grown over the last two decades, patient
safety as a health policy issue is relatively new. The evolution of patient safety as a health …

National and Institutional Trends in Adverse Events Over Tim... : Journal of Patient Safety
National and Institutional Trends in Adverse Events Over Time: A Systematic Review and …

Objective This study aimed to estimate the frequency of hospital adverse events (AEs) and
explore the rate of AEs over time, and across and within hospital populations. Methods …

Mixed results from a decade of campaigns and checklists suggest that the success of
interventions largely depend on the environments in which they're implemented.“ …

Several major news stories in the past year have highlighted adverse events in Canadian
healthcare and prompted questions about whether healthcare in Canada is safe and what is …

Patient safety has become a matter of interest to healthcare professionals, governments and
researchers worldwide. During the last decade, many studies have been conducted to …

With ten years of activity and easily tens of millions of dollars invested in patient safety we
should now have a much safer healthcare system. But do we? This report provides an …