Introduction: Effective feedback from incident reporting systems in healthcare is essential if
organisations are to learn from failures in the delivery of care. Despite the wide-scale …

The application of concepts, theories and methods from systems ergonomics within patient
safety has proved to be an expanding area of research and application in the last decade …

Medication errors can cause a variety of adverse drug events but are potentially
preventable. This cross-sectional study analysed all medication public and 5 private primary …

The above is a hypothetical example of a well-conceived, rigorous study with solid outcomes
whose investigators find themselves at a loss for why they cannot move its findings into …

Objective: To develop a taxonomy describing patient safety events in general practice from
reports submitted by a random representative sample of general practitioners (GPs), and to …

Background The use of medications is the most common intervention in healthcare.
However, unsafe medication practices and medication errors are a leading cause of injury …

Background Many medical errors occur during the laboratory testing process, including lost
test results. Patient inquiry concerning results often represents the final safety net for locating …

PURPOSE Observational studies that collect patient-level survey data at the point-of-care
are often called card studies. Card studies have been used to describe clinical problems …

Objective To evaluate the feasibility of a locally implemented incident-reporting procedure
(IRP) in primary healthcare centres after 1 year. Setting and participants Five primary …

Objective To discuss the characteristics of incidents reported to the Medical Safety in
Community Practice (MSCP) safety learning system. Methods Members of family physician …