Objectives: To synthesize the literature describing compliance with World Health
Organization hand hygiene guidelines in ICUs, to evaluate the quality of extant research …

Large national reviews of patient charts estimate that approximately 10% of hospital
admissions are associated with an adverse event (defined as an injury resulting in …

Objective To evaluate physician burnout, well-being, and work unit safety grades in
relationship to perceived major medical errors. Participants and Methods From August 28 …

Health care is everywhere under tremendous pressure with regard to efficiency, safety, and
economic viability-to say nothing of having to meet various political agendas-and has …

Background In the 10 years since publication of the Institute of Medicine's report To Err Is
Human, extensive efforts have been undertaken to improve patient safety. The success of …

Objective To examine the safety of pertussis vaccination in pregnancy. Design
Observational cohort study. Setting The UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink. Participants …

BACKGROUND: Patient safety climate (PSC) is an important work environment factor
determining patient safety and quality of care in healthcare organizations. Few studies have …

Patients, clinicians and managers all want to be reassured that their healthcare organisation
is safe. But there is no consensus about what we mean when we ask whether a healthcare …

Background Ensuring patients benefit from the latest medical and technical advances
remains a major challenge, with rational-linear and reductionist approaches to translating …

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 …