Correspondence to Stephanie P Schwartz, Department of Pediatrics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Children's Hospital, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA; stephanie_schwartz{at}unc.edu Background ...

Background Patient identification is a central safety critical aspect of healthcare work. Most healthcare activities require identification of patients by healthcare staff, often in connection with ...

1 Centre of Population Health Sciences: General Practice Section, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK 2 Tayside Centre for General Practice, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK 3 Centre for Rural ...

1 Department of Family Medicine and MEDEX Northwest, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA 2 Department of Biobehavioral Nursing, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA 3 ...

Background Teamwork training and system standardisation have both been proposed to reduce error and harm in surgery. Since the approaches differ markedly, there is ...

3 Institute of Clinical Education, Peninsula College of Medicine & Dentistry, Universities of Exeter and Plymouth, Plymouth, Devon, UK Correspondence to Jon Allard, Institute of Clinical Education, ...

1 Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA 2 Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA Correspondence to: Assistant Professor B-T Karsh ...

1 Division of Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 2 Department of Emergency Medicine, University of British Columbia, ...

1 The University of Chicago, Department of Pediatrics, Comer Children’s Hospital, Chicago, IL, USA 2 Northwestern University, Department of Emergency Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA 3 Harvard Affiliated ...

Correspondence to: Dr A J Lankshear Department of Health Sciences, Seebohm-Rowntree Building, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK; al25york.ac.uk Objectives: To assess the effectiveness of the ...

Correspondence to Professor Helen E Lester, NIHR School for Primary Care Research, University of Manchester, 7th Floor Williamson Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK; ...

Correspondence to Professor B D Franklin, Centre for Medication Safety and Service Quality, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust/UCL School of Pharmacy, London WC1N ...