Making Medicines Safer

Making plasma derived medicines available

Making Electronic Refunds Safer

We show how to break an electronic cash protocol due to van Antwerpen (a refinement of the system proposed by Chaum, Fiat, and Naor), and give an alternative protocol that fixes the problem.

Making carotid surgery safer.

Carotid surgery has been shown to be beneficial in level one randomised trials. However, evidence suggests that current outcomes do not match those published in 1991. In order to make carotid endarterectomy safer in the future, it is essential to optimise patient selection and risk factor management and to maintain an obsessional approach to surgical technique. A planned strategy of monitoring ...

Making safer treatment choices

Safer medicines management in primary care.

Errors in the medicines management process represent an important source of iatrogenic harm in primary care. Most errors result from underlying systems-based problems that are amenable to intervention and potentially preventable. In this paper, we seek to identify the frequency of medication-related morbidity in primary care, understand the underlying systemic reasons that increase risk of medi...