In advance of a safety campaign on 17 March 2017, Donald Redelmeier and Allan Detsky call on physicians and clinical colleagues to reduce the chances that patients will drive drunk.

OBJECTIVES One-third of practices signing-out to The Children's Hospital Call Center in Denver, Colorado, choose to do second-level physician (SLP) triage for calls judged by the Center to require after-hours referral (AHR). We examined: 1) the effect of SLP triage on the rate of AHRs and 2) reasons for physicians' decisions. DESIGN From January 1998 to August 1998 all calls from patients usi...

PURPOSE Throughout the United States, the lack of orthopaedic on-call coverage at many institutions has been described as a "crisis." This study sought to understand how emergency department (ED) physicians perceive their orthopaedic on-call coverage. Specifically, the study looked at availability of orthopaedic coverage, adequacy of coverage, and reasons for patient transfers. METHODS After ...

OBJECTIVE Involvement in errors often results in serious health effects, emotional distress, as well as performance and work-related consequences in staff members, in particular physicians. The aim of this systematic review was to evaluate current evidence on a) the impact of involvement in medical errors on physicians, b) needs and experiences in coping with the experience of error, and c) int...