Medical errors are a major concern in clinical practice, suggesting the need for advanced
surgical aids for preoperative planning and rehearsal. Conventionally, CT and MRI scans …

Background and aim Improving health care quality and ensuring patient safety is impossible
without addressing medical errors that adversely affect patient outcomes. Therefore, it is …

Introduction We report the first prospective analysis of human factors elements contributing
to invasive procedural never events by using a validated Human Factors Analysis and …

Background Surgical checklists has been shown to improve patient safety and teamwork in
the operating theatre. However, despite the known benefits of the use of checklists in …

Jonathan Ichikawa develops a contextualist semantics for knowledge ascriptions, and
shows how it can illuminate foundational questions in epistemology. He argues that in …

Objective To evaluate the association between weekend admission to hospital and 11
hospital acquired conditions recently considered by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid …

BACKGROUND: Retained surgical items (RSIs) are serious events with a high potential to
harm patients. It is estimated that as many as 1 in 5,500 operations result in an RSI, and …

Perioperative nurse leaders are facing an unprecedented nursing shortage. Very few
baccalaureate nursing programs in the United States prepare graduates for perioperative …

Objective Using the example of robotic-assisted surgery (RAS), we explore the
methodological and practical challenges of technology integration in surgery, provide …

Background We aim to analyze the characteristics of incidences of missing surgical items
(MSIs) and to examine the changes in MSI events following the implementation of an MSI …