Safety in aviation has often been compared with safety in healthcare. Following a recent
article in this journal, the UK government set up an Independent Patient Safety Investigation …

Background A growing body of peer-reviewed studies demonstrate the importance of safety
culture in healthcare safety improvement, but little attention has focused on developing a …

Nursing is typically understood, and understands itself, as a care-giving occupation. It is
through its relationships with patients–whether these are absent, present, good, bad or …

Background In hospitals, handoffs are episodes in which control of, or responsibility for, a
patient passes from one health professional to another, and in which important information …

Breakdowns in teamwork that lead to surgical flow or operative disruptions are exceedingly
common, having been noted at a rate of 17.4 per hour in one cardiac surgery study19 and at …

METHODS A search was conducted using the PubMed and ProQuest databases with the
terms handover, handoff, and patient transfer and combinations of each term with the terms …

The concept of using a checklist in surgical and anaesthetic practice was energized by
publication of the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist in 2008. It was believed that by routinely …

Medical residents in hospitals are often required to be on duty for long hours. In 2003 the
organization overseeing graduate medical education adopted common program …

Article-at-a-Glance Background Numerous quality improvement projects on patient handoffs
have been conducted, yet standardized, reliable measurement tools remain elusive. Handoff …

Objectives To define a set of indicators that could be used to improve quality in intensive
care medicine. Methodology An European Society of Intensive Care Medicine Task Force on …