Background: There is an emerging interest in the inadvertent harm caused to patients by the
provision of primary health-care services. To date (up to 2015), there has been limited …

Background Transitions between healthcare settings are vulnerable points for patients. Aim
To identify key threats to safe patient transitions from hospital to primary care settings …

A wide variety of research studies suggest that breakdowns in the diagnostic process result
in a staggering toll of harm and patient deaths. These include autopsy studies, case reviews …

Health services throughout the world strive to provide care to people when they are unwell
and assist them to stay well. Primary care services are increasingly at the heart of integrated …

Objectives Recent critiques of incident reporting suggest that its role in managing safety has
been over emphasized. The objective of this study was to examine the perceived …

Recognizing that current theories of team learning do not apply to short-term action teams,
we conceptualize how action teams may learn and test hypotheses regarding the …

Background: Healthcare practices involve risks for patients, but there has been little
research to date on the occurrence of adverse events (AE) in primary care (PC). The …

OBJECTIVE: This study prospectively assesses the underlying errors contributing to surgical
complications over a 12-month period in a complex academic department of surgery using a …

O objetivo deste artigo foi identificar metodologias utilizadas para avaliação de incidentes
na atenção primária à saúde, os tipos, seus fatores contribuintes e as soluções para tornar a …

The aim of this study was to identify methodologies to evaluate incidents in primary health
care, types of incidents, contributing factors, and solutions to make primary care safer. A …