Classification of medical errors and preventable adverse events in primary care: A synthesis of
the literature Page 1 The Journal of Family Practice • NOVEMBER 2002 • VOL. 51, NO. 11 ■ …

More needs to be done to improve safety and quality and to manage risks in health care.
Existing processes are fragmented and there is no single comprehensive source of …

O cenário moderno e competitivo dos sistemas de prestação de cuidados de saúde
contrapõe-se às suas demandas ascendentes e aos recursos nem sempre suficientes. A …

Background. The current US national discussions on patient safety are not based on a
common language. This hinders systematic application of data obtained from incident …

Objectives: To sustain an argument that harnessing the natural properties of sociotechnical
systems is necessary to promote safer, better healthcare. Methods: Triangulated analyses of …

Aim To explore factors that influence nurses' decisions to raise concerns about standards of
practice. Background Health care practitioners have a key role in monitoring care quality …

Objective: To describe a classification of errors and to assess the feasibility and acceptability
of a method for recording staff reported errors in general practice. Design: An iterative …

The evolution of the concepts and processes underpinning the Australian Patient Safety
Foundation's systems over the last 15 years are traced. An ideal system should have the …

The dynamic and distributed work environment in critical care requires a high level of
collaboration among clinical team members and a sophisticated task coordination system to …

Objective. To better understand the remaining three-fold disparity between adverse event
(AE) rates in the Quality in Australia Health Care Study (QAHCS) and the Utah-Colorado …