Article Text
Letter
Real time patient safety audits
Statistics from Altmetric.com
Real time patient safety audits undertaken by Ursprung et al1 are potentially a novel approach to quality in health care and an interesting application of safety adapted from industry. From an error detection perspective they offer similar advantages to other prospective studies which had greater detection accuracy than retrospective medical record reviews.2 The advantage of detecting errors before they occur, as opposed to mandatory or …