Background—Cardiac complications are important causes of morbidity after noncardiac
surgery. The purpose of this prospective cohort study was to develop and validate an index for …

Background. The ongoing debate on the incidence and types of iatrogenic injuries in
American hospitals has been informed primarily by the Harvard Medical Practice Study, which …

Objectives: To survey operating theatre and intensive care unit staff about attitudes concerning
error, stress, and teamwork and to compare these attitudes with those of airline cockpit …

Background There is widespread interest in measuring healthcare provider attitudes about
issues relevant to patient safety (often called safety climate or safety culture). Here we report …

Background: Despite more than three decades of research on iatrogenesis, surgical adverse
events have not been subjected to detailed study to identify their characteristics. This …

… Thomas was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Generalist Physician Faculty Scholar.
Also, funding was provided by The Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz Foundation. … Thomas …

BACKGROUND: Little evidence exists that links teamwork to patient outcomes. We conducted
this study to determine if patients of teams with good teamwork had better outcomes than …

OBJECTIVE: A survey was performed in 5 European countries (France, Germany, Italy,
Portugal, and Spain) to estimate the prevalence of fibromyalgia (FM) in the general population. …

Background: Although missed and delayed diagnoses have become an important patient
safety concern, they remain largely unstudied, especially in the outpatient setting. Objective: …

Patient injuries are thought to have a substantial financial impact on the health care system,
but recent studies have been limited to estimating the costs of adverse drug events in …