The Australian Patient Safety Foundation was formed in 1987; it was decided to set up and
co-ordinate the Australian Incident Monitoring Study as a function of this Foundation; 90 …

The new edition of this popular text has been extensively revised and updated throughout. It
will continue to provide the trainee or practising anesthetist with all the information, both …

medical costs of over $2 billion per year and that the total lifetime cost of such preventable
injury may be twice that amount. They also note that there is a heavy toll in human costs on …

The anaesthetic incident reporting scheme in Leicester has been running for 11 years and
1000 incidents have now been reported. The scheme has successfully highlighted …

Purpose Investigation of adverse events associated with anesthetic procedures is a method
of quality control that identifies topics to improve clinical care and patient safety. Most …

A survey of anaesthetic critical events based on voluntary anonymous reports was
undertaken over a two and a half year period within a teaching hospital Department of …

La utilización de sistemas de comunicación de incidentes ha proporcionado información
determinante para mejorar la seguridad en ámbitos médicos y no médicos. Aunque existe …

Human error is one of the major contributory causes of accidents. Joschek suggests that
between 80 and 90% of the chemical industry's incidents involve human error, ranging from …

Los sistemas de comunicación de incidentes recogen información sobre sucesos adversos,
errores, complicaciones o problemas con el objetivo de analizar sus causas y sugerir …

Angestoßen durch die Publikation „To Err is Human “des Institute of Medicine aus dem
Jahre 2000 fokussiert sich die Diskussion über Qualitätssicherung im Gesundheitswesen …