1 NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Patient Safety, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia 2 The Alfred Hospital, National Trauma Research Institute, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia ...

1 Division of Physical Therapy Education, School of Allied Health Professions, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, USA 2 Department of Biostatistics, College of Public Health, ...

Objective To understand how lean thinking has been put into practice in healthcare and how it has worked. Design A realist literature review. Data sources The authors systematically searched for ...

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 ...

Background Debriefings help teams learn quickly and treat patients safely. However, many clinicians and educators report to struggle with leading debriefings. Little empirical knowledge on optimal ...

In a companion paper, we proposed that cognitive debiasing is a skill essential in developing sound clinical reasoning to mitigate the incidence of diagnostic failure. We reviewed the origins 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 ...

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1 Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 2 Center for Surgery and Public Health, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, ...

Background Surgical complications represent a significant cause of morbidity and mortality with the rate of major complications after inpatient surgery estimated at 3–17% in industrialised countries.

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 ...

1 Houston Veterans Affairs Center for Innovations in Quality, Effectiveness and Safety, Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center and the Section of Health Services Research, Department of ...