1 Children’s Hospital Boston, Boston, MA; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; Center for Patient Safety in Neonatal Intensive Care, Burlington, VT, USA 2 Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, ...

In Plato's Theaetetus, knowledge is defined as the intersection of truth and belief, where knowledge cannot be claimed if something is true but not believed or believed but not true. Using an example ...

1 Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA 2 Division of General Internal Medicine, Kyoto University Hospital, Kyoto, Japan 3 Harvard ...

Research questions The paper explores which type of quality aspects (structure, process, outcome) most strongly determines patients' overall assessment of healthcare, and whether there is a variation ...

2 Agency for Clinical Innovation, NSW Ministry of Health, Faculty of Health, University of Tasmania, Australia 3 School of Nursing and Midwifery, Deakin University, Melbourne School of Health Sciences ...

Structured observational research involves monitoring of healthcare domains by experts to collect data on errors, adverse events, near misses, team performance, and organisational culture. This paper ...

Healthcare institutions continue to face challenges in providing safe patient care in increasingly complex organisational and regulatory environments while striving to maintain financial viability.

Introduction Patients are increasingly being thought of as central to patient safety. A small but growing body of work suggests that patients may have a role in reporting patient safety problems ...

4 Department of Surgery and Internal Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark 5 Department of Orthopaedics and Internal Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, ...

The identification of methods for assessing the views of patients on health care has only developed over the last decade or so. The use of patients' views to improve healthcare delivery requires valid ...