Methods: Our systematic literature review identified 2 groups of studies:(1) those comparing
the effectiveness of IRSs with other methods of error reporting and (2) those examining the …

Background Adverse events in patients who have undergone surgery constitute a large
proportion of iatrogenic illnesses. Most surgical safety interventions have focused on the …

Background The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) enacted a
policy in 2011 that restricted first-year resident physicians in the USA to work no more than …

Objective: To assess what proportion of surgical malpractice claims might be prevented by
the use of a surgical safety checklist. Background: Surgical disciplines are overrepresented …

Anyone who has received or delivered care understands it is vulnerable to fail. After each
failure, the narrative is familiar and recited often—continuous quality improvement is …

Objective To assess the effectiveness of a prospective multifaceted quality improvement
intervention on patient outcomes after total hip and knee arthroplasty (THA and TKA) …

Background and objective Incident, adverse event (AE) and complaint data are typically
used separately, but may be related at the patient level with one event triggering a cascade …

Background This study was designed to determine the incidence of adverse events and
errors in the care of surgical patients and to demonstrate that continuous prospective …

Background Due to increasing life expectancy, the number of older patients harboring a
meningioma is expected to increase. We determined whether preoperative variables and …

AN IN-DEPTH, INTERDISCIPLINARY CASE study was conducted to map and describe the
information, material, and functional processes common to high-volume surgical specialty …