Few industries match the scale of health care. In the United States alone, an estimated 85%
of the population has at least 1 health care encounter annually and at least one quarter of …

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 …

About one in ten patients are harmed during health care. This paper estimates the health,
financial and economic costs of this harm. Results indicate that patient harm exerts a …

Changing how we think about healthcare improvement Page 1 the bmj | BMJ 2018;361:k2014
| doi: 10.1136/bmj.k2014 1 QUALITY IMPROVEMENT Changing how we think about …

Background Healthcare represents a paradox. While change is everywhere, performance
has flatlined: 60% of care on average is in line with evidence-or consensus-based …

One of the key recommendations of the Institute of Medicine's (IOM) report, To Err is Human,
15 years ago was for greater attention to incident reporting in healthcare, analogous to the …

Identification and measurement of adverse medical events is central to patient safety,
forming a foundation for accountability, prioritizing problems to work on, generating ideas for …

Background Simulation-based medical education enables knowledge, skills and attitudes to
be acquired for all healthcare professionals in a safe, educationally orientated and efficient …

Aim In this integrative review, we aimed to: first, identify and summarize published studies
relating to ward nurses' recognition of and response to patient deterioration; second, to …

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 …