The last 5 years have seen a rapid growth in research applying artificial intelligence or machine learning to improve the quality and safety of healthcare. This coincides with the release of web ...
The healthcare delivered in high-income countries is riddled with defects in value. One in 10 patients experiences harm when ...
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In this issue of BMJ Quality & Safety, Hampton and colleagues report a process evaluation of an intervention trial intended to encourage older patients’ involvement in their hospital care.1 The logic ...
‘The Problem with…’ series covers controversial topics related to efforts to improve healthcare quality, including widely recommended, but deceptively difficult strategies for improvement and ...
1 Centre for Public Policy & Management, Department of Management, University of St Andrews, Fife, UK 2 Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, School of Health Sciences, Medical School, ...
Correspondence to: Pia Knudsen Pharmakon a/s, Danish College of Pharmacy Practice, Milnersvej 42, DK- 3400 Hillerød, Denmark; pkn{at}pharmakon.dk Background: Medication errors are a widespread problem ...
4 Danish Society for Patient Safety, Hvidovre Hospital, Hvidovre, Denmark Correspondence to: P Knudsen Pharmakon a/s, Danish College of Pharmacy Practice, DK-3400 Hillerød, Denmark; ...
1 University of Technology Sydney, Centre for Health Communication, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 2 HSPIB, NSW Ministry of Health, North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 3 Emergency Department, ...
Mistake proofing uses changes in the physical design of processes to reduce human error. It can be used to change designs in ways that prevent errors from occurring ...
Department of Anesthesiology and the Duke University Human Simulation and Patient Safety Center, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA Correspondence to: Melanie C Wright PhD ...