Objective. To determine whether hindsight bias impacts on retrospective case note review
using a five point scoring system based on modern clinical governance toolkits. Design …

Background Case note review remains a prime means of retrospectively assessing quality of
care. This study examines a new implicit judgement method, combining structured reviewer …

Clinical cases have remained an exceedingly popular genre of publication in medicine due
to their abilities to permit rapid and easy exchange of information particularly about unusual …

Objectives To determine which of the two methods of case note review provide the most
useful and reliable information for reviewing quality of care. Design Retrospective, multiple …

Objective: The quality of clinical care is often assessed by retrospective examination of case-
notes (charts, medical records). Our objective was to determine the inter-rater reliability of …

The concepts of patient-centered care and patient-centered research have moved to the
forefront of health care and research in recent years, with early examples presented within …

Objective To determine if applying change analysis to the narrative reports made by
reviewers of hospital deaths increases the utility of this information in the systematic analysis …

Physicians and their staff may experience a resolution of anxiety and guilt that can improve
their well-being (strength of recommendation [SOR]: C, based on survey data). Full …

This research article discusses the results of a pilot study at a large academic medical center
to appropriately describe patient severity and the likelihood of mortality. In this study, we …

Previous studies have revealed high rates of errors in death certification, but few have
discussed the nature of these errors. To explore the diversity among physicians in death …