Objective: To describe and compare adverse event (AE) incidence, type, severity, and preventability in the Canadian inpatient rehabilitation setting.
Design: In this retrospective case series, AEs were identified through chart reviews from two Canadian academic tertiary post-acute care hospitals. AEs were characterized through descriptive statistics and compared using the Mantel-Haenszel and Fisher's exact tests.
Background: Efforts to increase physician engagement in quality and safety are most often approached from an organisational or administrative perspective. Given hospital-based physicians' strong professional identification, physician-led strategies may offer a novel strategic approach to enhancing physician engagement. It remains unclear what role medical leadership can play in leading programmes to enhance physician engagement.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Physician engagement is crucial for furthering patient safety and quality improvement within healthcare organizations. Medical Safety Huddles, which are physician-specific huddles, is a novel way to engage physicians with patient safety and may reduce adverse events experienced by patients. We plan to conduct a multi-center quality improvement (QI) initiative to implement and evaluate Medical Safety Huddles.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The population of patients designated as alternate level of care (ALC) consists predominantly of frail older adults who are medically stable and awaiting discharge from hospital. They have complex medication regimens, often including potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs). There has been increasing emphasis on managing the burden that ALC patients place on the health care system, but little is known about their health care needs.
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June 2009
Previous work [Gong and Brumer, Phys. Rev. Lett.
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