The purpose of this study was to develop, implement, and evaluate a comprehensive
provider/team communication strategy, resulting in a toolkit generalizable to other settings of …

Medical education is increasingly laying emphasis on a curriculum based on cognitive,
psychomotor, and affective domains of learning which were originally proposed nearly 50 …

Health care is an enormously expensive, highly complex, universally used service that
significantly affects economies and the quality of daily living. Service management …

Objective To assess whether structured team briefings improve operating room
communication. Design, Setting, and Participants This 13-month prospective study used a …

Background: We aimed to improve the quality and safety of handover of patients from
surgery to intensive care using the analogy of a Formula 1 pit stop and expertise from …

ContextThe coordinating function of primary care is information-intensive and may be
impeded by missing clinical information. However, missing clinical information has not been …

Complex older patients represent about half of all acute public hospital admissions in
Australia. People with dementia are a classic example of complex older patients, and have …

Blockchain has applications in a broad range of settings, including healthcare (eg, patient
data management, health supply chain management, financial and insurance claims, and …

Importance Potentially preventable adverse events remain a formidable cause of patient
harm and health care expenditure despite advances in systems-based risk-reduction …

BACKGROUND: The risk of technical failure during operations is recognized, but there is
evidence that further improvements in safety depend on systems factors, in particular …