Close calls in patient safety: Should we be paying closer attention?

Close calls in patient safety: should we be paying closer attention?

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Electronic health records and patient safety: should we be discouraged?

To cite: Payne TH. BMJ Qual Saf 2015;24:239–240. For decades we have looked hopefully to electronic health records (EHRs) to aid efforts to make healthcare safer. Early research gave basis to this hope: automated alerts and reminders were shown to improve preventive and chronic illness care, electronic records could be better organised and more easily delivered where needed, automated computeri...

Necessity of Paying Attention to Sesame Oil Production Safety

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The Rise of Patient Safety-II: Should We Give Up Hope on Safety-I and Extracting Value From Patient Safety Incidents?; Comment on “False Dawns and New Horizons in Patient Safety Research and Practice”

Who could disagree with the seemingly common-sense reasoning that: “We must learn from the things that go wrong.”? Despite major investments to improve patient safety, relatively few evaluations demonstrate convincing reductions in risk, harm, serious error or death. This disappointing trajectory of improvement from learning from errors or Safety-I as it is sometimes known has led some research...