Purpose Adverse events are increasingly recognized as a source of harm to patients. When
such harm occurs, problems arise in communicating the situation to patients and their …

Background A review of the literature on economic analyses in cancer (prevention,
diagnosis, and treatment) using activity-based costing (ABC) or time-driven activity-based …

Health care organizations are environments with high management complexity and subject
to a constant exposure to risks. Enterprise risk management (ERM) has been studied and …

Article-at-a-Glance Background Physicians are encouraged to disclose medical errors to
patients, which often requires close collaboration between physicians and risk managers …

Risk managers often meet with health care workers who are emotionally traumatized
following adverse events. We surveyed members of the American Society for Health care …

Medical error has been increasingly recognized as a source of harm. The risk of harm can
be even greater in cancer care with its potentially life-limiting disease and toxic treatments …

Background Medical errors are unavoidable in health care institutions. Errors can occur due
to multiple reasons, yet communication between health care providers has proven to be the …

BackgroundHealthcare organizations have invested efforts on hospital-based health
technology assessment (HB-HTA) and enterprise risk management (ERM) processes for …

QUESTION UNDER STUDY To establish at what stage Swiss hospitals are in implementing
an internal standard concerning communication with patients and families after an error that …

Objetivo Elaborar unas recomendaciones sobre «Información de eventos adversos a
pacientes y familiares», mediante la realización de una conferencia de consenso. Material y …