Quality in Australian Health Care Study

Preventable and mitigable adverse events in cancer care: Measuring risk and harm across the continuum

“…1 In a more recent study of 4 US outpatient oncology clinics, the rate of potentially injurious errors was 5 per 1000 medication orders in adults and 10 per 1000 in children. 2 These rates of errors and AEs in ambulatory oncology are low in comparison with the rates of adverse drug events in studies of hospitalized (5%-10%) [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11] and ambulatory general medicine patients (25%), 1,12 and this raises the possibility of a systematic underestimation of the problem's magnitude.…”

A smartphone‐enabled communication system to improve hospital communication: Usage and perceptions of medical trainees and nurses on general internal medicine wards

“…Previous studies have advocated the importance of effective communication between clinicians as a critical component in the provision of high-quality patient care. [1][2][3][4] There is increasing interest in the use of information and communication technologies to improve how clinicians communicate in hospital settings. A number of hospitals have implemented different solutions to improve communication.…”

An Error

“…Medical Literature Table 1 shows the major studies used to estimate the rate of medical errors, [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11] none of which were designed to study error. The Harvard Medical Practice Study in New York State and its successor in Colorado and Utah were designed to study medical malpractice and the potential costs of tort reform.…”

“…The other population-based study that is used to describe medical error rates is the Quality in Australian Health Care Study. 8 The principal measured outcome of this study was again adverse events caused by medical care according to a definition that was virtually identical to that of the Harvard Medical Practice Study.…”