BACKGROUND Underreporting of errors in hospitals persists despite the claims of technology companies that electronic systems will facilitate reporting. This study builds on previous analyses to examine error reporting by nurses in hospitals using electronic media. PURPOSE This research asks whether the electronic media creates additional barriers to error reporting, and, if so, what practical...

Spurred by a controversial report from the Institute of Medicine on the prevalence of medical error, To Err Is Human, the medical profession has seen an increase in event reporting systems at the international, national, and institutional levels. Aviation, with its long history of reporting systems, has shown that these systems can yield previously unknown, but safety-critical information for d...

I n his 2008 research letter, Ebell 1 highlights the relationship between residency fill rates and physician specialty salary (r=0.82). Mullan referred to this as the “white-follows-green law.” In the same issue, Salsberg et al reported that graduate medical education (GME) expansion since funding caps were put in place favored nonprimary care specialties and was associated with a reduction in ...

The National Evaluation System for Health Technology will be developed over the next five years to upgrade and improve the reporting of medical device adverse events. However, participants using the new system will incur significant capital costs.

Evidence based medicine (EBM) has drawn the attention of the medical community around the world and is rapidly becoming the standard in medical research. EBM requires both rigorous clinical trial research design, including adequate randomization and appropriate control, and accurate and thorough reporting of the findings of trials. Despite China's active research program, the majority of tradit...