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Patient and carer identified factors which contribute to safety incidents in primary care: a qualitative study
Background Patients can have an important role in reducing harm in primary-care settings. Learning from patient experience and feedback could improve patient safety. Evidence that captures patients’ ...
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The quality, safety and content of telephone and face-to-face consultations: a comparative study
1 Centre of Population Health Sciences: General Practice Section, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK 2 Tayside Centre for General Practice, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK 3 Centre for Rural ...
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Enabling the implementation of evidence based practice: a conceptual framework.
Royal College of Nursing Institute, Royal College of Nursing, London, UK. The argument put forward in this paper is that successful implementation of research into practice is a function of the ...
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Are more experienced clinicians better able to tolerate uncertainty and manage risks? A vignette study of doctors in three NHS emergency departments in England
Background Risk aversion among junior doctors that manifests as greater intervention (ordering of tests, diagnostic procedures and so on) has been proposed as one of the possible causes for increased ...
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Hindsight bias, outcome knowledge and adaptive learning
The ubiquitous nature of hindsight bias is a cause for concern for those engaged in investigations and retrospective analysis of medical error. Hindsight does not ...
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Systematic review of clinical debriefing tools: attributes and evidence for use
Correspondence to Dr Emma Claire Phillips, The University of Edinburgh, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, Edinburgh EH16 4SB, UK; e.c.phillips{at}doctors.org.uk Background and objectives ...
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Impact of feeling responsible for adverse events on doctors’ personal and professional lives: the importance of being open to criticism from colleagues
1 The Research Institute, The Norwegian Medical Association, P O B 1152 Sentrum, N-0107 Oslo and Institute of Health Management and Health Economics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway 2 ...
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The use of report cards and outcome measurements to improve the safety of surgical care: the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program
2 Department of Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA 3 Department of Surgery, Olive View-UCLA Medical Center, Sylmar, California, USA Correspondence to Dr ...
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Introduction of a comprehensive management protocol for severe sepsis is associated with sustained improvements in timeliness of care and survival
1 Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 2 Department of Emergency Medicine, University of British Columbia, ...
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Striving for high reliability in healthcare: a qualitative study of the implementation of a hospital safety programme
Background Healthcare leaders look to high-reliability organisations (HROs) for strategies to improve safety, despite questions about how to translate these strategies into practice. Weick and ...
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Eliminating hospital nurse understaffing is a cost-effective patient safety intervention
More than 20 years since a landmark study1 documented hospitalised patients were more likely to die when their nurse cared for too many patients at a time, hundreds of rigorously conducted studies in ...
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Patient and clinician perspectives on misgendering in healthcare
Purpose Misgendering of transgender and non-binary (TGNB) individuals in healthcare settings can lead to worsened mental and physical health outcomes and decreased utilisation of care. Few studies ...