Background Access to electronic health records (EHRs) has the potential to improve the quality of care. Clinical notes, free-text entries documenting clinicians’ observations and decisions, are ...

Background Pulmonary embolism (PE) is a potentially deadly disease and a diagnostic challenge in emergency departments (EDs). Established strategies exist for risk stratification and test stewardship ...

Introduction Redundancy is a system design principle that introduces duplicate components to provide fault tolerance. When a component fails, a backup takes over to ensure the system still performs as ...

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Patient safety management within healthcare systems globally can feel like a relentlessly negative treadmill. Mortality reviews, incident reporting systems and audits all focus attention on what goes ...

Healthcare providers are expected to communicate, coordinate and collaborate with people both within and outside their formal team on a regular basis, often with individuals from different professions ...

The challenge of method Looking back over the current state of interruption research in healthcare, the majority of papers have focused on simple counting studies using a variety of methodologies to ...

Background Effective communication is critical for patient safety. One potential threat to communication in the operating room is incivility. Although examined in other industries, little has been ...

Background Despite significant advances, patient safety remains a critical public health concern. Daily huddles—discussions to identify and respond to safety risks—have been credited with enhancing ...

Background Conceptual models have been developed to address challenges inherent in studying health information technology (HIT). Method This manuscript introduces an eight-dimensional model ...

Background Quality improvement collaboratives (QIC) have proliferated internationally, but there is little empirical evidence for their effectiveness. Method We searched Medline, Embase, CINAHL, ...

Objective: Five years ago the Institute of Medicine recommended improving patient safety by addressing organizational cultural issues. Since then, surveys measuring a patient safety climate considered ...