Introduction Duplicate medical records occur when a single patient is assigned multiple medical record numbers within an ...
1 Brigham and Women's Hospital Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 2 Harvard School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Importance Medication computerised ...
Background Diagnostic errors remain a significant challenge in healthcare, with cognitive biases, particularly availability bias, playing a critical role. While previous studies focused on controlled ...
Methods Data sources were identified using database searches, with additional reference and hand searching. Eligibility criteria were applied to all studies identified, resulting in a total of 24 ...
Evaluating the effects of increasing nursing numbers on quality of newborn care in understaffed neonatal units in Kenya: a prospective intervention study ...
4 School of Biomedical Informatics, University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, Houson, Texas, USA 5 National Center for Cognitive Informatics and Decision Making in Healthcare, University ...
Objective—To review the literature on the benefits and disadvantages of clinical and medical audit, and to assess the main facilitators and barriers to conducting the audit process. Design—A ...
Sepsis and antimicrobial stewardship programmes coexist in tension, as they can appear to have apparently opposing messages around antimicrobial prescribing. In the era of increasing antimicrobial ...
3 Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia Correspondence to Dr David M Studdert, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, 207 ...
Correspondence to Miss Michelle Halligan, The University of Western Ontario, Health and Rehabilitation Sciences Graduate Program, Elborn College, 1201 Western Road, London, ON, Canada, N6G 1H1; ...
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 ...
Background: Evidence-based clinical guidelines aim to improve the quality of care. In The Netherlands, considerable time and effort have been invested in the development and implementation of evidence ...