Importance Emergency departments (ED) are environments that are at high risk for medical
errors. Previous studies suggested that the proportion of medical errors may decrease when …

Background: Shared values, norms and beliefs of relevance for safety in health care can be
described in terms of patient safety culture. This concept overlaps with patient safety climate …

3. Flanders SA, Greene MT, Grant P, et al. Hospital performance for pharmacologic venous
thromboembolism prophylaxis and rate of venous thromboembolism: a cohort study. JAMA …

As in any part of the hospital system, safety incidents can occur in the ED. These incidents
arguably have a distinct character, as the ED involves unscheduled flows of urgent patients …

Nurse education uses an apprenticeship model to teach students clinical skills. However,
lack of faculty, clinical preceptors, early hospital discharges, and lack of clinical practice …

This raises 2 major questions. First, when will crosschecking be implemented so that these
findings are not overlooked as previous studies of cross-checking have been? 2 Although …

To the Editor Due to an inadvertent journal error, when preparing our Invited Commentary 1
regarding the Research Letter by Nikpay et al, 2 we were not sent the final version of the …

Chest pain is a common emergency department (ED) patient complaint. Electrocardiogram
(ECG) acquisition is the first test administered to determine suitable treatment options for …

Tämän opinnäytetyön tarkoituksena on kartoittaa mitä vaaratapahtumia
päivystyspoliklinikalla on tapahtunut, mitkä ovat myötävaikuttavia tekijöitä vaaratapahtumille …