Background Medication error is one of the most common medical errors in the practice of
modern medicine. Among cancer patients receiving chemotherapy, medication errors can …

Patient-centered healthcare is a goal for all health systems. However, given the inherent
complexities of the health system as one with many nonlinear and dynamic components, the …

Rekindled passions and revival of indigenous beliefs and practices have become one of the
emerging conversations on African Religions (AR). This paper draws upon an ethnographic …

This study investigates the resurgence of ézèńwànyì (defined broadly as traditional female
healer/diviner/priestess) in the patriarchal Ìgbò society of Nigeria. We employ ethnographic …

Background: Healthcare has become complex requiring balance of ever-increasing
demands on physicians against humanness of medicine. As the impetus for the delivery of …

Background: Modern technology in nursing practice is the application of organized
knowledge and skills in the form of devices, medicines, vaccines, procedures, and systems …

Background. Though the goal of healthcare institutions is patient safety, errors have been
committed by healthcare providers. Incident reporting behavior enhances patient safety by …

BACKGROUND: Globally, medical care have an age long history, but the rights of patients
are more recent and occupy front burner in the quality of care metrics and medical …

An overview of bioethical challenges facing the Sub-Saharan African region. The chapter
groups these challenges under five headings: health care ethics; bioethics of communo …

Background: Globally, safety of patients in healthcare environment has been an issue of the
decade, especially in resource-constrained settings. The Hippocratic maxim primum non …