Abstract Background Adverse events (AEs) seriously affect patient safety and quality of care,
and remain a pressing global issue. This study had three objectives:(1) to describe the …

Introduction: Adverse events in hospitals constitute a serious problem with grave
consequences. Many studies have been conducted to gain an insight into this problem, but …

Background: Research into adverse events (AEs) has highlighted the need to improve
patient safety. AEs are unintended injuries or complications resulting in death, disability or …

The great majority of medical diagnoses are made using automatic, fast, and frugal cognitive
processes; they are correct most of the time. This analytic review concerns the exceptions …

Objective: To characterize intraoperative errors, events, and distractions, and measure
technical skills of surgeons in minimally invasive surgery practice. Background: Adverse …

Objective: This study determined the incidence, type, nature, preventability and impact of
adverse events (AEs) among hospitalised patients and potentially preventable deaths in …

Aim To assess the occurrence and impact of adverse events in New Zealand public
hospitals. Methods Two-stage retrospective review of 6579 medical records, selected by …

Objectives To review literature reporting adverse events and physiological instability in order
to develop frameworks that describe and define clinical deterioration in hospitalised …

WORLD ALLIANCE FOR PATIENT SAFETY Page 1 World Health Organization “First, do no
harm...” Attributed to Hippocrates circa 470-360 BC WORLD ALLIANCE FOR PATIENT SAFETY …

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 …