Background Experience-based codesign (EBCD) is an approach to health service design
that engages patients and healthcare staff in partnership to develop and improve health …

Patient safety is an activity to mitigate preventable patient harm that may occur during the
delivery of medical care. The European Board of Anaesthesiology (EBA)/European Union of …

Knapp 20 Jahre ist es her, dass das Institute of Medicine in den USA den bahnbrechenden
Report To Err Is Human („Irren ist menschlich") veröffentlichte und die internationale …

Background The digital transformation of health care is advancing rapidly. A well-accepted
framework for health care improvement is the Quadruple Aim: improved clinician …

Background Performance in the operating room is an important determinant of surgical
safety. Flow disruptions (FDs) represent system-related performance problems that affect the …

Objective Using the example of robotic-assisted surgery (RAS), we explore the
methodological and practical challenges of technology integration in surgery, provide …

Background The fast-paced and rapidly changing environment of an Emergency
Department (ED) requires providers to have a high level of situation awareness (SA) …

Although smart infusion pumps were built to eliminate medication errors, new types of
usability errors have arisen. The purposes of this study were to determine potential risks …

Objectives Preoperative anticoagulation management (PAM) is a complex, multidisciplinary
process important to patient safety. The Functional Resonance Analysis Method (FRAM) is a …

Objective To identify type and severity of surgical flow disruptions and to determine their
impact on the perception of intraoperative teamwork. Methods Forty radical prostatectomy …