At least one error at any stage 73.4 (54.4 to 89.7) No error made at any stage 26.6 (10.3 to 45.6) With error-checking at each stage At least one error at any stage ...

1 Department of Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH, USA 2 Departments of Pediatrics and of Internal Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH, USA 3 Veterans ...

1 Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA 2 Center for Quality and Productivity Improvement, College of ...

1 Section of General Internal Medicine, VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 2 Section of General Internal Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 3 Boston ...

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Background Little is known about the incidence or significance of diagnostic error in the inpatient setting. We used a malpractice claims database to examine ...

1 Center for Health Services Research in Prmary Care, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA 2 Geriatrics Research, Education and Clinical Center, Veterans Affairs Medical Center ...

Correspondence to Dr Daniel Escobar, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Daniel.Escobar{at}pennmedicine.upenn.edu Over a century after Semmelweis introduced the ...

Clinical Safety Research Unit, Department of Surgery and Cancer, St. Mary's Hospital, London, UK Correspondence to Rachel Davis, Clinical Safety Research Unit, Department of Surgery and Cancer, 10 th ...

2 Department of Health Sciences, University of York, York, UK 3 Department of Health Sciences, University of York and Hull York Medical School, York, UK 4 Department of Health Sciences, University of ...