Published in OTO Open
Objective Despite the implementation of advanced health care safety systems including checklists, preventable perioperative sentinel events continue to occur and cause patient harm, disability, and death. We report on findings relating to otolaryngology practices with surgical safety checklists, the scope of intraoperative sentinel events, and inst...
Published in Cureus
Background: Medical errors and adverse events may affect up to 7.5% of hospitalizations, although observational studies suggest the numbers could be even higher. Previous studies have shown that medical television (TV) shows may be a major driver when it comes to a patient’s medical knowledge and perspectives. Methods: Six episodes from the first s...
Published in World neurosurgery
Neurosurgery is a specialty at high risk for malpractice claims, which can be influenced by the quality and safety of care. Diagnostic errors have gained increasing attention as a potentially preventable problem. Despite the burden of diagnostic errors, few studies have analyzed diagnostic errors in the field of neurosurgery. Here we delineate the ...
Published in Journal of patient safety
All organizations seek to minimize the risks that their operations pose to public safety. This task is especially significant if they deal with complex or hazardous technologies. Five decades of research in quantitative risk analysis have generated a set of risk management frameworks and practices that extend across a range of such domains. Here, w...
Published in Journal of Education and Health Promotion
INTRODUCTION: Reporting medical errors is one of the common methods for identifying and preventing mistakes in-hospital care. This study was conducted to identify the status of reporting and related factors in two groups of midwives and midwifery students. METHODOLOGY: This research was analytic correlational; it was conducted among all the midwive...
Published in Cureus
Statins are a ubiquitous medication class in the primary care setting where they provide effective primary and secondary prevention of coronary artery disease by lowering cholesterol. While statins are mostly safe, muscle-related adverse events are well described. Very rarely patients can actually develop elevated creatine kinase (CK) consistent wi...
Published in Frontiers in Pharmacology
Aim To identify common drug-related problems (DRPs) during pharmacy intervention and consultation in an intensive care unit (ICU); to explore the gap between physicians and pharmacists on their understanding of each other’s capabilities and needs. Method We conducted a single-center prospective study in the ICU of a tertiary academic hospital for 2...
Published in Journal of patient safety
Apologizing to patients is an encouraged practice, yet little is known about how and why providers apologize and what insights apologies could provide in improving quality and safety. The aim of the study was to determine whether provider apologies in the electronic health record could identify patient safety concerns and opportunities for improvem...
Published in Age and ageing
The prevalence of age-related hearing loss (ARHL) increases with age. Older adults are amongst the most dependent users of healthcare and most vulnerable to medical error. This study examined health professionals' strategies, as well as level of formal training completed, for communication with older adults with ARHL, and their views on the contrib...
Published in Frontiers in Psychology
Job performance and job stress are widely studied phenomena in occupational research. However, most literatures on the relationship between work stress and job performance conceptualize job stress as an antecedent of performance, in line with the stress-performance framework, and do not examine what happens to the well-being of the employees after ...
