Background A retained surgical item (RSI) is defined as a never-event and can have drastic
consequences on patient, provider, and hospital. However, despite increased efforts, RSI …

Three key challenges to a whole-system approach to process improvement in health
systems are the complexity of socio-technical activity, the capacity to change purposefully …

This paper presents the Trusted Integrated Knowledge Dataspace (TIKD), a new dataspace,
based on linked data technologies and trusted data sharing, that supports integrated …

La seguridad del paciente es una prioridad de sistemas de salud. El desarrollo de
estrategias de mejora de calidad se ha enriquecido con la incursión de la disciplina …

This paper provides a novel method for evaluating Incident Response (IR) teams through
the application of the Cube Socio-technical Systems Analysis (STSA) methodology. Cube is …

The scale and pace of improvement in patient safety in healthcare has been unacceptably
slow. A paucity of research into the application of systems-thinking concepts and a failure to …

This paper proposes a framework for developing a trustworthy artificial intelligence (AI)
supported knowledge management system (KMS) by integrating existing approaches to …

Introduction Retained surgical items in operating rooms (ORs) continue to contribute
significantly to medical errors. The first step in addressing the problem of retained surgical …

This chapter presents the Trusted Integrated Knowledge Dataspace (TIKD)—a trusted data
sharing approach, based on Linked Data technologies, that supports compliance with the …

Abstract Background Ward rounds (WRs) are a daily organisational process in hospitals.
Studies have found variation however in the definition and objectives of WRs, where they …