BACKGROUND The aim of this systematic review is to quantify potentially preventable patient harm from the frequency, severity, and preventability of the consequences and causes of surgical adverse events to help target patient safety improvement efforts. DATA SOURCES Two authors independently reviewed articles retrieved from systematic searches of the Cochrane library, MEDLINE, Embase, PsycIN...

Physical and psychiatric symptoms often occur together. In both hospital and primary care the presence of one leads to a worse outcome in the other.' For instance, physical illness has a large, immediate effect on depressive symptoms, while further depressive symptoms are associated with increased subsequent physical morbidity. Among all outcomes, it is the increase in mortality that is of most...

OBJECTIVES Medication discrepancies at the time of hospital discharge are common and can harm patients. Medication reconciliation by pharmacists has been shown to prevent such discrepancies and the adverse drug events (ADEs) that can result from them. Our objective was to estimate the economic value of nontargeted and targeted medication reconciliation conducted by pharmacists and pharmacy tech...

Rates of delay and refusal of recommended childhood vaccines are increasing in many U.S. communities. Children's health care providers have a strong influence on parents' knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs about vaccines. Provider attitudes towards immunizations vary and affect their immunization advocacy. One factor that may contribute to this variability is their familiarity with vaccine-preve...

BACKGROUND Medication safety research and clinical pharmacy practice today is primarily focused on managing preventable adverse drug events (pADEs). Determinants of both pADEs and non-preventable adverse drug reactions (ADRs) have been identified. However, relatively little is known on the overlap between these determinants and the balance of preventable and non-preventable harm inpatients expe...

Exposure to coal dust from mining-related activities has historically been linked several preventable but incurable respiratory diseases. Although the findings of numerous biological studies have determined that physicochemical and mineralogical aspects particles greatly influence both cytotoxic proinflammatory pathways, robust datasets which quantitatively define these characteristics remain l...

Nurses are frontline workers and have an important role to play in reducing the harms associated with alcohol other drugs (AOD) dependence. AOD dependence is a major cause of preventable illness, particularly since overprescribing opioids has led worldwide overdose crisis. However, nurses receive little education their undergraduate training about or harm reduction strategies. Additionally, ‘wa...