Safety in aviation has often been compared with safety in healthcare. Following a recent
article in this journal, the UK government set up an Independent Patient Safety Investigation …

Hospital errors are a seemingly intractable problem and continuing threat to public health.
Errors resist intervention because too often the interventions deployed fail to address the …

Progress toward improving patient safety has been slow despite engagement of the health
care community in improvement efforts. A potential reason for this sluggish pace is the …

Healthcare worldwide is faced with a crisis of patient safety: Notwithstanding occasional
successes in relation to specific harms, safety as a system characteristic has remained …

Abstract Federal legislation (Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical
Health (HITECH) Act) has provided funds to support an unprecedented increase in health …

Background The views of practitioners at the sharp end of health care provision are now
recognised as a valuable source of intelligence that can inform efforts to improve patient …

The change management process in government institutions includes many challenges that
require identifying the factors that may facilitate such a process. This study aims to examine …

Purpose: Incident learning plays a key role in improving quality and safety in a wide range of
industries and medical disciplines. However, implementing an effective incident learning …

Given the complexity of healthcare and the 'people'nature of healthcare work and delivery,
STSA (Sociotechnical Systems Analysis) research is needed to address the numerous …

Objective We conducted a literature search to examine the effects and experiences
surrounding the transition from paper to electronic checklists in healthcare settings. We …