There is now a plethora of different quality improvement strategies (QIS) for optimizing
health care, some clinician/patient driven, others manager/policy‐maker driven. Which of …

About one in ten patients are harmed during health care. This paper estimates the health,
financial and economic costs of this harm. Results indicate that patient harm exerts a …

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has poorer clinical outcomes in males than in
females, and immune responses underlie these sex-related differences. Because immune …

The term" patient safety" rose to popularity in the late nineties, as the medical community--in
particular, physicians working in nonmedical and administrative capacities--sought to raise …

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 Several review studies have shown that 3.4% to 16.6% of patients in acute care
hospitals experience one or more adverse events. Adverse events (AEs) in hospitals …

Aims To assess the preventability and clinical context of adverse events identified in New
Zealand public hospitals. Methods Two-stage retrospective review of 6579 medical records …

Objective In this systematic review, we evaluate 2 of the most used trigger tools according to
the criteria of the World Health Organization for evaluating methods. Methods We searched …

Objective To determine the impact and preventability of adverse events (AEs) associated
with health care in Spanish hospitals. Design Retrospective cohort study. Setting Twenty …

Disasters are part of the modern condition, a source of physical anxiety and existential
angst, and they are increasing in frequency, cost and severity. Drawing on both disaster …