Objective: Five years ago the Institute of Medicine recommended improving patient safety by
addressing organizational cultural issues. Since then, surveys measuring a patient safety …

Article-at-a-Glance Background Root cause analysis (RCA) is an analysis framework used
in health care to determine the systemic causes and prevent recurrences of adverse events …

Objective: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is an important mental health issue in terms
of the number of people affected and the morbidity and functional impairment associated …

Context The World Alliance for Patient Safety was formed to accelerate worldwide research
progress towards measurably improving patient safety. Although rates of adverse events …

Importance Preventable hospitalizations are common among older adults for reasons that
are not well understood. Objective To determine whether Medicare patients with ambulatory …

Objectives. We sought to determine whether disparities in health-related quality of life exist
between veterans who live in rural settings and their suburban or urban counterparts …

BACKGROUND: Both providers and payors bear the financial risk associated with
complications of poor quality care. But the stakeholder who bears the largest burden of this …

To improve identification of contributors to manuscripts, editors of medical journals have
developed authorship responsibility criteria. Some have specified an acceptable number of …

OBJECTIVE: To provide an example of implementation of a new program that enhances
access to mental health care in primary care. METHOD: A general and specialized mental …

Study Design. Serial, cross-sectional, nationally representative surveys of
noninstitutionalized US adults. Objective. To examine expenditures on common ambulatory …