Background Cognitive biases and personality traits (aversion to risk or ambiguity) may lead
to diagnostic inaccuracies and medical errors resulting in mismanagement or inadequate …

Background: Experts consider health information technology key to improving efficiency and
quality of health care. Purpose: To systematically review evidence on the effect of health …

Identification and measurement of adverse medical events is central to patient safety,
forming a foundation for accountability, prioritizing problems to work on, generating ideas for …

Objectives.—To assess incidence and preventability of adverse drug events (ADEs) and
potential ADEs. To analyze preventable events to develop prevention strategies. Design …

FOR YEARS, medical and nursing students have been taught Florence Nightingale's dictum—
first, do no harm. 1 Yet evidence from a number of sources, reported over several decades …

This document presents guidelines for develo** institutional programs to enhance
antimicrobial stewardship, an activity that includes appropriate selection, dosing, route, and …

This research explores how group-and organizational-level factors affect errors in
administering drugs to hospitalized patients. Findings from patient care groups in two …

Objective.—To determine the excess length of stay, extra costs, and mortality attributable to
adverse drug events (ADEs) in hospitalized patients. Design.—Matched case-control study …

Objective.—To identify and evaluate the systems failures that underlie errors causing
adverse drug events (ADEs) and potential ADEs. Design.—Systems analysis of events from …

Information technology can improve patient safety by preventing errors and facilitating rapid
response to adverse events. Computerized prescribing by physicians reduces the rate of …