BACKGROUND Incident reporting is the prevailing approach to gathering data on accidental falls in hospitals for both research and quality assurance purposes, though is of questionable quality as staff time pressures, perception of blame and other factors are thought to contribute to under-reporting. METHODS This research aimed to identify contextual factors influencing recording of in-hospita...

Four hundred three consecutive injury victims admitted via emergency ward over a 3-month period were tracked with 403 contemporaneous controls with medical illness and blindly assessed for in-hospital accidents. There was a high frequency of "incidents" (n = 161 in 107 patients, mainly falls and medication errors), but injury victim admissions resembled medically ill controls when compared by t...

Despite recent successes against large banking malware botnets such as Gameover Zeus and Shylock, banking malware continues to be a huge threat as new families such as Dyreza, Vawtrak and Dridex have occupied the vacant space in the market. Not only has the malware itself matured but we have also seen the ecosystem and market model used by the malware authors evolve, as they gain in professiona...

BACKGROUND Medical residents are key figures in delivering health care and an important target group for patient safety education. Reporting incidents is an important patient safety domain, as awareness of vulnerabilities could be a starting point for improvements. This study examined effects of patient safety education for residents on knowledge, skills, attitudes, intentions and behavior conc...

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Pre-hospital applications, such as triage, natural disasters, and nursing homes, will benefit from ubiquitous, embedded systems that wirelessly communicate patient’s vital signs. In order for an accurate, automated electronic system to be constructed, the system must be carefully designed in regards to usability and functionality. The sensor network in the Advanced Health and Disaster Network (...

The "critical incident technique" was described by Flanagan in 19541, when it was used to reduce loss of military pilots and aircraft during training. Jeffry Cooper in 1978 introduced it into anaesthesia as a method to study errors during administration of anaesthesia2 • He defined a critical incident as an occurrence that could have led (if not discovered or corrected in time) or did lead to a...

OBJECTIVES When a soccer stadium stampede occurred in Zimbabwe on 9 July 2000, the hospital disaster (medical emergency) plan failed. This report describes the use of the audit technique to change the hospital's disaster preparedness. METHOD A literature review was done to establish international standards of best practice in major medical incident response. The hospital disaster plan (major ...