Clinical indicators are increasingly developed and promoted by professional organizations,
governmental agencies, and quality initiatives as measures of quality and performance. To …

1. To understand medication errors and to identify preventive strategies, we need to classify
them and define the terms that describe them. 2. The four main approaches to defining …

Background Research into adverse events in hospitalized patients suggests that a
significant number are preventable. The purpose of this randomized, controlled study was to …

Objective To determine whether an increase in the rate of undesirable events occurs after
care provided by trainees at the beginning of the academic year. Design Retrospective …

The distribution of medico‐legal claims in English anaesthetic practice is unreported. We
studied National Health Service Litigation Authority claims related to anaesthesia since …

Critical incident monitoring is useful in detecting new problems, identifying 'near misses' and
analyzing factors or events leading to mishaps, which can be instructive for trainees. This …

Traditional human reliability assessment techniques and accounting system cannot directly
provide loss information for assessing the impacts of human errors. This obstacles force …

Objectives: To identify the incidence of self‐reported harmful adverse events in the health
care of community‐dwelling adults, and to examine attitudes about safety in the health …

Проведено проспективное, рандомизированное, открытое исследование. В него было
включено 165 пациентов (27 мужчин, 138 женщин), которым в дневном стационаре …

Im Bemühen, die Patientensicherheit im Krankenhaus kontinuierlich zu verbessern und das
organisationale Lernen zu fördern, rückt die Analyse von Zwischenfällen und …