Objective Overconfidence is an important source of medical error. This review analyses experimental studies of confidence in ...

Background Literature depicts differences in ethical decision-making (EDM) between countries and intensive care units (ICU). Objectives To better conceptualise EDM climate in the ICU and to validate a ...

2 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital, Taipei Branch, Taipei, Taiwan 3 Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, ...

2 Consultant Specialist, Australian Patient Safety Foundation; Visiting Research Fellow, University of Adelaide and Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia 3 Professor and Head, ...

Department of Anesthesiology and the Duke University Human Simulation and Patient Safety Center, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA Correspondence to: MC Wright PhD Department ...

Background To describe the diagnoses of people who present to the emergency department (ED) with low back pain (LBP), the proportion of people with a lumbar spine condition who arrived by ambulance, ...

Objectives: To assess current attitudes towards the national patient survey programme in England, establish the extent to which survey results are used and identify barriers and incentives for using ...

2 Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA With the growth of the patient safety movement and development of methods to measure workforce health and success have come ...

Correspondence to Miss Michelle Halligan, The University of Western Ontario, Health and Rehabilitation Sciences Graduate Program, Elborn College, 1201 Western Road, London, ON, Canada, N6G 1H1; ...

Correspondence to Dr Stephanie Tierney, University of Warwick Warwick Medical School, Warwick Medical School, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK; stephanie.tierney{at}warwick.ac.uk Nursing, in particular, has been ...

Introduction: Effective feedback from incident reporting systems in healthcare is essential if organisations are to learn from failures in the delivery of care. Despite the wide-scale development and ...

2 Department of Bachelor in Nursing, University College Arteveldehogeschool Ghent, Gent, Belgium Context Previous studies report that pressure ulcer classification and differentiation from ...