‘We need bold, fundamental change that gets at the roots of the burnout crisis.’ - US Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy, MD, MBA. Well-being was brought into clearer focus during the COVID-19 pandemic, ...

Scientific studies of artificial intelligence (AI) solutions in healthcare have been the subject of intense criticism—both in research publications and in the media.1–3 Early validations of predictive ...

Adverse drug events (ADEs) are one of the leading categories of iatrogenic patient injury, accounting for 19% of all adverse events in the Harvard Medical Practice Study. 1 More recent studies of the ...

Healthcare workers could learn much from the engineering and civil aviation industries about safety management. The medical community is becoming more open to learning safety lessons from other ...

Background Triage and clinical consultations increasingly occur remotely. We aimed to learn why safety incidents occur in remote encounters and how to prevent them. Setting and sample UK primary care.

Background Audit and feedback (A&F) interventions improve patient care but may result in unintended consequences. To evaluate plausible harms and maximise benefits, theorisation using logic models can ...

Background Quality improvement (QI) efforts have become widespread in healthcare, however there is significant variability in their success. Differences in context are thought to be responsible for ...

Background: The potential severity of wrong patient/procedure/site of surgery and the view that these events are avoidable, make the prevention of such errors a priority. An intervention was set up to ...

Objectives To document the burden of in-hospital falls and fractures, and to identify factors that may increase the risk of these events. Design A retrospective cohort analysis Setting The study was ...

Objectives: To determine whether practice structure (for example, list size, number of staff) predicts team processes and whether practice structure and team process in turn predict team outcomes ...

Background Diagnostic errors have been attributed to reasoning flaws caused by cognitive biases. While experiments have shown bias to cause errors, physicians of similar expertise differed in ...

Background Nurses, midwives and paramedics comprise over half of the clinical workforce in the UK National Health Service and have some of the highest prevalence of psychological ill health. This ...