The investigation of incidents and accidents, together with subsequent reflection and action, is an essential component of safety management in every safety-critical industry, including healthcare. A ...

The Enhancing the Quality and Transparency of Health Research (EQUATOR) Network indexes over 600 reporting guidelines designed to improve the reproducibility of manuscripts across medical fields and ...

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 ...

1 Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA 2 Center for Quality and Productivity Improvement, College of ...

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1 Section of General Internal Medicine, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 2 Section of General Internal Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 3 Boston ...

1 Center for Health Services Research in Prmary Care, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA 2 Geriatrics Research, Education and Clinical Center, Veterans Affairs Medical Center ...

Correspondence to Dr Daniel Escobar, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Daniel.Escobar{at}pennmedicine.upenn.edu Over a century after Semmelweis introduced the ...

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 ...