How Well Do We Know Doctors?
- Decision Support
- 23/12/2014
In the BMJ's weekly quiz for doctors, 50 respondents were asked to define their personality. The results reveal a wide choice of adjectives related...
READ MOREIn the BMJ's weekly quiz for doctors, 50 respondents were asked to define their personality. The results reveal a wide choice of adjectives related...
READ MOREPatient safety is one of the foremost challenges in US healthcare, affecting hundreds of thousands of patients and costing tens of billions of doll
READ MOREPreventable adverse events — injuries due to medical errors — are a major cause of death among Americans. Although some progress has been made in...
READ MORELast year, acute care hospitals in Massachusetts recorded a 70 percent spike in serious medical errors and patient injuries, according to a Boston...
READ MOREAuthor Andrej Michalsen, MD, MPH Consultant Intensive Care Medicine HELIOS Hospital Überlingen,Überlingen/See, Germany [email protected] Risk-prone industries, such as aviation and nuclear power plant operations, have been addressing the issue of erroneous design and behaviour in systematic...
READ MORESeveral studies the last decade have revealed that errors and adverse events are common in the ICU. Errors have become the norm rather than the exception in most ICUs—for physicians as well as nurses. Efforts have been made to prevent errors and adverse events from occurring, but evidence showing that preventive measures are effective is scarce....
READ MOREMedical imaging is a critical component of the care that health professionals provide. However, mounting evidence demonstrates that between 10 - 20% of imaging studies are unnecessary. Any clinical intervention without clear purpose or patient benefit creates waste and negatively affects quality of care. Rising costs alone for imaging are a looming...
READ MOREAlthough surgeons do not appear more likely to make mistakes than physicians in other disciplines, surgical errors may have more severe consequences
READ MOREA new study by researchers from the Regenstrief Institute and the Indiana University School of Medicine has found that hospital discharge summaries...
READ MORENurses have a genuine impact on patient safety. Studies have found a link between patient safety and RN staffing and an increase rate of error when the hospital nursing staff with a smaller proportion of RNs (Ramsey 2005). Other studies have shown that increasing the nurse to patient ratio by 1 can significantly impact the 30-day mortality in surgical...
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