... analysis Risk assessment In 2003, healthcare costs grew at a rate of six times inflation (Armour and Appleby, 2003). This was not an isolated increase but represented a multi‐year trend of healthcare prices rising at multiples of inflation over most of the last decade. Important contributors...

..., the respondents were asked what they felt was the greatest threat to patient safety. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Patient care Children Health and safety Risk assessment An increasing number of studies show that patients injured in health care constitute a substantial problem...