Copyright © 2012 Suzanne C. O'Neill et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Cancer prevention, detection, and treatment represent the frontline of genomic translation. Increasingly, new genomic knowledge is being us...

I am pleased to write this introduction to the new Journal of Cell Science Article Series on Stem Cells. Stem cell research is now regarded as one of the most exciting fields of biomedical research. However, its origins lie in several distinct research disciplines, including developmental biology, pathology and immunology. Developmental biologists have long been interested in how different cell...

There is little agreement in the literature as to what types of patient safety events (PSEs) should be the focus for learning, change and improvement, and we lack clear and universally accepted definitions of error. In particular, the way front-line providers or managers understand and categorize different types of errors, adverse events and near misses and the kinds of events this audience bel...

BACKGROUND Retrospective record review using trigger tools remains the most widely used method for measuring adverse events (AEs) to identify targets for improvement and measure temporal trends. However, medical records often contain limited information about factors contributing to AEs. We implemented an augmented trigger tool that supplemented record review with debriefing front-line staff to...