Objectives To evaluate the changes in productivity when scribes were used by emergency
physicians in emergency departments in Australia and assess the effect of scribes on …

In the global world, we live in, business environment is interdependent and increasingly
diverse speaking of culture. Therefore, operational risks exceed local and regional limits …

Objective: To understand the etiology and resolution of unanticipated events in the operating
room (OR). Background: The majority of surgical adverse events occur intraoperatively. The …

Rationale, aims and objectives Double checking is a standard practice in many areas of
health care, notwithstanding the lack of evidence supporting its efficacy. We ask in this …

The concept of resilience needs greater empirical clarity. The literature on resilience in
health care, published between 2006 and 2016, was reviewed with the aim of describing …

To analyze the resilience of logistic networks, it is proposed to use a quantificational
resilience evaluation approach. Firstly, the node resilience in a network is evaluated by its …

Few strategies routinely used during shift change handovers in high-reliability organisations
(HROs) are used in healthcare. 1 The findings from the paper in this issue by Borowitz et al2 …

Current design codes and standards in the United States focus on the design of individual
facilities and do not account for other coupled physical and nonphysical infrastructure. This …

Common characteristics of crisis situations are ambiguous and unplanned for events. The
need for improvised roles can therefore be an imperative factor for the success of an …

Across the board, safety specialists advocate and search for 'leading'indicators that will
allow organizations to detect and respond to safety threats before disasters occur. Even the …