Background Safety-netting is intended to protect against harm from uncertainty in diagnosis/disease trajectory. Despite recommendations to communicate diagnostic uncertainty when safety-netting, this ...

Background Informed consent for medical interventions is ethically and legally required; an important aspect of quality and safety in healthcare; and essential to person-centred care. During labour ...

There is wide belief that organisational culture shapes many aspects of performance, including safety. Yet proof of this relationship in a medical context is hard to find. In contrast to human factors ...

1 Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA 2 Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA 8 Pediatric Critical Care, ...

Safety in the clinical environment is based on structures that reduce the probability of harm, on evidence that enhances the likelihood of actions that increase favourable outcomes, and on explicit ...

Background Patients are a valuable source of information about ways to prevent harm in primary care and are in a unique position to provide feedback about the factors that contribute to safety ...

1 Centre for Primary Health Care Studies, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK 2 Department of General Practice & Primary Care, Guy’s, King’s and St Thomas’ School of Medicine, ...

2 Johns Hopkins Medicine Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, Baltimore, Maryland, USA Correspondence to Dr Jill A Marsteller, Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University ...

Background There is growing international interest in involving patients in interventions to promote and support them in securing their own safety. This paper reports a systematic review of ...

1 The University of Texas Center of Excellence for Patient Safety Research and Practice, Houston, Texas, USA 2 The University of Texas Houston Medical School, Department of Medicine, Division of ...

1 Centre for Education Research & Innovation, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada 2 Center for Health Education Scholarship, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada ...

Quality of care for secondary cardiovascular disease prevention in 2009–2017: population-wide cohort study of antiplatelet therapy use in Scotland ...