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Objectives: To assess awareness and use of the current incident reporting system and to identify factors inhibiting reporting of incidents in hospitals. Design, setting and participants: Anonymous ...

3 Center for Health Services Research, Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, Washington, USA Correspondence to Dr C Craig Blackmore, Center for Health Services Research, Virginia Mason Medical ...

“The right quality and uniformity are foundations of commerce, prosperity and peace.” W E Deming (1900–1993) Variation causes waste. How could any one take these apparently simple ideas and turn them ...

2 Institute for Simulation and Training, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, USA 3 Department of Psychology, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, USA 4 University of Kansas ...

1 Professor of Health Policy and Management, The Nordic School of Public Health and The Karolinska Institute, Sweden, and The Faculty of Medicine, Bergen University, Norway 2 Robert Ratner Professor ...

1 Health Informatics Research & Evaluation Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia 2 Centre for Health Informatics, Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Faculty ...

Correspondence to Professor Paul Batalden, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Lebanon, NH 03766, USA; paul.batalden{at}gmail.com Our interactions during the Colloquium ...

Background Speaking up is important for patient safety, but healthcare professionals often hesitate to voice their concerns. Direct supervisors have an important role in influencing speaking up.

1 Institute and Outpatient Clinic for Occupational, Social, and Environmental Medicine, Munich University, Munich, Germany 2 Institute for Occupational and Social Medicine, University of Düsseldorf, ...

Administrative data are readily available, inexpensive, computer readable, and cover large populations. Despite coding irregularities and limited clinical details, administrative data supplemented by ...