Why do things go wrong? Human error is routinely blamed for disasters in the air, on the
railways, in complex surgery, and in health care generally. However, quick judgments and …

Background: Over the past five years, in most hospitals in England and Wales, incident
reporting has become well established but it remains unclear how well reports match clinical …

A pilot audit of case records of consecutively discharged patients from a district general
hospital was undertaken by specialist registrars, SHOs and senior nurses in order to identify …

Background Medical errors and adverse events are a source of concern to patients,
practitioners and patient safety agencies across the world. The value of incident reporting as a …

… Eschewing a traditional, chronological approach, authors Jane Chapman and Nick Nuttall
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Decision triggers are defined thresholds in the status of monitored variables that indicate
when to undertake management, and avoid undesirable ecosystem change. Decision triggers …

Methods Senior nurses and senior house officers (SHOs) working on three specified wards
for acute medical and surgical admissions screened case records immediately after the …

This transnational, interdisciplinary study argues for the use of comics as a primary source.
In recuperating currently unknown or neglected strips the authors demonstrate that these …