Background: Research into adverse events (AEs) has highlighted the need to improve
patient safety. AEs are unintended injuries or complications resulting in death, disability or …

Background Prior studies suggest that unintended medication discrepancies that represent
errors are common at the time of hospital admission. These errors are particularly worthy of …

Background: Readmissions to hospital are common, costly and often preventable. An easy-to-use
index to quantify the risk of readmission or death after discharge from hospital would …

OBJECTIVE: To compare results of a specific capacity assessment administered by the treating
clinician, and a Standardized Mini‐Mental Status Examination (SMMSE), with the results …

Background: Over a quarter of hospital prescribing errors are attributable to incomplete
medication histories being obtained at the time of admission. We undertook a systematic review …

Survivors of severe acute kidney injury remain at high risk of death well after apparent
recovery from the initial insult. Here we determine whether early nephrology follow-up after a …

OBJECTIVE: We compared the reproducibility and accuracy of conventional clinical
examination of the diabetic foot to monofilament examination. We also sought to simplify the …

Our objective was to review the available evidence of the precision and accuracy of the clinical
examination for abnormal systolic murmurs. We conducted a MEDLINE search, manually …

Purpose To systematically review published quality improvement (QI) and patient safety (PS)
curricula for medical students and/or residents to (1) determine educational content and …

Patients are entitled to make decisions about their medical care and to be given relevant
information on which to base such decisions. The physicians obligation to obtain the patient's …