Many hospitals continue to use incident reporting systems (IRSs) as their primary patient
safety data source. The information IRSs collect on the frequency of harm to patients …

Knapp 20 Jahre ist es her, dass das Institute of Medicine in den USA den bahnbrechenden
Report To Err Is Human („Irren ist menschlich") veröffentlichte und die internationale …

BACKGROUND: Patient safety concerns over the past 2 decades have prompted
widespread efforts to reduce adverse events (AEs). It is unclear whether these efforts have …

Safety in healthcare is a constantly moving target. As standards improve and concern for
safety grows, we come to regard an increasing number of events as patient safety issues. In …

Objectives: To review the history of clinical information systems over the past twenty-five
years and project anticipated changes to those systems over the next twenty-five years …

• Although there is ample evidence that Canadians suffer preventable harm owing to unsafe
care, 52, 53 useful international comparisons focusing on the safety of health care are rare.• …

In ancient Roman religion, Janus was the god of gates and doorways, but also beginnings,
endings, transitions, passages, time and duality. Usually depicted as having two faces …

Objective We describe our approach to surveillance of reportable safety events captured in
hospital data including free-text clinical notes. We hypothesize that a) some patient safety …

Das Deutsche Netzwerk Versorgungsforschung eV (DNVF) fördert seit Jahren die
methodische Qualität von Versorgungsforschungsstudien auf der Basis von Memoranden …

BACKGROUND: There is a lack of data in Canada on the longitudinal effects of adverse
events that occur in hospital, specifically in the period after discharge. Our objective was to …