Background Healthcare patient safety investigations inappropriately focus on individual culpability and the target of ...

At least one error at any stage 73.4 (54.4 to 89.7) No error made at any stage 26.6 (10.3 to 45.6) With error-checking at each stage At least one error at any stage ...

1 Department of Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH, USA 2 Departments of Pediatrics and of Internal Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH, USA 3 Veterans ...

Background Patients and caregivers often face significant challenges when they are discharged home from hospital. We sought to understand what influenced patient and caregiver experience in the ...

Machine learning (ML) solutions are increasingly entering healthcare. They are complex, sociotechnical systems that include data inputs, ML models, technical infrastructure and human interactions.

The concept of knowledge co-production is used in health services research to describe partnerships (which can involve researchers, practitioners, managers, commissioners or service users) with the ...

2 Department of Practice and Policy, Centre for Medication Safety and Service Quality, UCL School of Pharmacy, London, UK 3 Faculty of Medicine, Centre for Haematology (Honorary Research Associate), ...

Correspondence to Dr David W Bates, Division of General Internal Medicine, The Center for Patient Safety Research and Practice, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 1620 Tremont St, Boston, MA 2120, USA; ...

The role and value of theory in improvement work in healthcare has been seriously underrecognised. We join others in proposing that more informed use of theory can strengthen improvement programmes ...

Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA Correspondence to: Associate Professor P J Pronovost Department of Anaesthesiology and ...

Correspondence to Dr Valerie M Vaughn, Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; valmv{at}umich.edu Background Identifying characteristics associated with struggling ...

4 School of Biomedical Informatics, University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, Houson, Texas, USA 5 National Center for Cognitive Informatics and Decision Making in Healthcare, University ...