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

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 ...

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), ...

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 ...

Objective To understand how lean thinking has been put into practice in healthcare and how it has worked. Design A realist literature review. Data sources The authors systematically searched for ...

Background: Registered nurses have a vital role in discovering and correcting medical error. Objective: To describe the type and frequency of errors detected by ...

Center for Safety in Emergency Care, Brown Medical School/Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, RI 02903, USA Correspondence to: Dr M J Shapiro, Center for Safety in Emergency Care, Brown Medical ...