Background Physicians are being asked to report errors from primary care, but little is known
about how they apply the term" error." This study qualitatively assesses the relationship …

Abstract Background Reason's Swiss cheese model has become the dominant paradigm for
analysing medical errors and patient safety incidents. The aim of this study was to determine …

Medical errors may result from lapses in judgment or lack of prudent care by individual
physicians, from system errors inherent in the medical-care delivery model or, more …

Responding to the public concern caused by recent hospital scandals and accounts of
unintended harm to patients, this author draws on her experience of analysing the health …

More than a million patient safety incidents occur every year, and medical error is the third
leading cause of death in the United States. Illuminating the experiences of those affected by …

Background The role of time management in safe and efficient medicine is important but
poorly incorporated into the taxonomies of error in primary care. This paper addresses the …

NORSK: Nasjonalt kunnskapssenter for helsetjenesten, ved Nasjonal enhet for
pasientsikkerhet tok på rundebordskonferansen i november 2007 initiativ til å danne en …

There is little agreement in the literature as to what types of patient safety events (PSEs)
should be the focus for learning, change and improvement, and we lack clear and …

In March 1896, Alan Archibald Campbell Swinton claimed that, according to his
experiments, X-rays did no harm. A few weeks later, Elihu Thompson proved him wrong …

As frontline clinicians, nurses play a critical role in mitigating patient harm, recovery from
health care errors, and overall improvement of patient safety. This cross-sectional study …