...-implementation is an appropriate method for this purpose because it is applicable to small departments (i.e. single MRI units) and/or sites with low patient volumes. Practical implications Many MRI-related burns and other adverse events are preventable, yet these incidents continue to occur. Reducing...

... < 0.05). Only 92 (25.2%) of the clinician respondents reported proper adverse event reporting and scoring practices in their working units. Inadequate teamwork, staff shortage, inadequate staff training and lack of essential medical supplies were identified as patient safety gaps. Research limitations...

... arrest, unanticipated intensive care unit admission, and death ”, Resuscitation , Vol. 84 No. 4 , pp. 465 - 470 . Professor Gary B. Smith can be contacted at: gbsresearch@virginmedia.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Adverse events...

... not effectively detect adverse events when compared with events based on systematic reviews of patient records (Vincent et al., 2008 ; Sari et al., 2007). Unfortunately, no consolidated systems of voluntary incident reporting have been established in hospital structures in Italy to allow...

... adverse events in acute hospitals: pressure ulcer, postoperative pulmonary embolism or deep vein thrombosis, postoperative sepsis, ventilator‐associated pneumonia and postoperative wound infection. Design/methodology/approach The analysis uses a retrospective medical record review of 1,515 patient...

... generally “do not scrutinise” how hospitals keep track of medical errors and other adverse events, the study said. The federal investigators did an in-depth review of 293 cases in which patients had been harmed. Forty of those cases were reported to hospital managers, and 28 were investigated...