qualitysafety.bmj2d
Investigators are human too: outcome bias and perceptions of individual culpability in patient safety incident investigations
Background Healthcare patient safety investigations inappropriately focus on individual culpability and the target of ...
qualitysafety.bmj15d
Understanding patient safety during earthquakes: a phenomenological study of disaster response
Background Natural hazards, such as earthquakes, pose a significant risk to both the public and healthcare professionals, jeopardising patient safety due to the disruption of healthcare systems and ...
qualitysafety.bmj14d
Choosing ‘Less’ Wisely as a marker of decisional conflict
Healthcare is at a crossroads. On one hand, health systems are increasingly committed to promote evidence-based practices and reduce wasteful spending. On the other hand, there is a persistent reality ...
qualitysafety.bmj10d
Table 3
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 ...
qualitysafety.bmj1d
The problem of appraising qualitative research
Qualitative research can make a valuable contribution to the study of quality and safety in health care. Sound ways of appraising qualitative research are needed, but currently there are many ...
qualitysafety.bmj5d
Beyond “see one, do one, teach one”: toward a different training paradigm
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Quality and Safety Research Group, Baltimore, MD, USA In the process of acquiring new skills, physicians-in-training may expose patients to harm because ...
qualitysafety.bmj8d
A primer on PDSA: executing plan–do–study–act cycles in practice, not just in name
1 Centre for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Too often, however, improvement teams go through the motions of PDSA cycles without really ...
qualitysafety.bmj8d
Impact of a hospital-wide hand hygiene initiative on healthcare-associated infections: results of an interrupted time series
1 Department of Medicine, The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA 2 The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, The Geisel School of Medicine at ...
qualitysafety.bmj7d
Measuring patient safety climate: a review of surveys
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 ...
qualitysafety.bmj8d
The impact of traditional and smart pump infusion technology on nurse medication administration performance in a simulated inpatient unit
2 Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 3 Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Faculty of Medicine, University ...
qualitysafety.bmj14d
Dual-process cognitive interventions to enhance diagnostic reasoning: a systematic review
Background Diagnostic error incurs enormous human and economic costs. The dual-process model reasoning provides a framework for understanding the diagnostic process ...
qualitysafety.bmj6d
Addressing the challenges of knowledge co-production in quality improvement: learning from the implementation of the researcher-in-residence model
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 ...