Healthcare practitioners, patient safety leaders, educators and researchers increasingly
recognise the value of human factors/ergonomics and make use of the discipline's person …

Falls are common among inpatients. Several reviews, including 4 meta-analyses involving
19 studies, show that multicomponent programs to prevent falls among inpatients reduce …

Over the past 12 years, since the publication of the Institute of Medicine's report,“To Err is
Human: Building a Safer Health System,” improving patient safety has been the focus of …

Venous thromboembolism (VTE) affects over 700,000 Americans annually. Prophylaxis
reduces the risk of VTE by 60% but many patients still do not receive risk‐appropriate VTE …

Background The WHO-surgical checklist is strongly recommended as a highly effective yet
economically simple intervention to improve patient safety. Its use and potentially influential …

Michel Foucault, in The birth of the clinic, 1 introduced the concept of the clinical gaze in a
wide ranging examination of the emergence of modern medicine. He proposed that the …

extended investigations, monitoring and weighing the expansive evidence represents a
formidable challenge for all health care professionals, including busy critical care nurses. To …

Innovating an innovation: a mix methods analysis on the implementation of a peer-to-peer
audit instrument at Gelre Hospitals Apeldoorn Although most people enjoy good quality …

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