Table of contents

Error management

• Assessment of the implementation of a national patient safety alert to reduce wrong site surgery (8 December, 2008)

  P Rhodes, S J Giles, G A Cook, A Grange, R Hayton, M J Maxwell, T A Sheldon, J Wright
• Adverse-event-reporting practices by US hospitals: results of a national survey (8 December, 2008)

  D O Farley, A Haviland, S Champagne, A K Jain, J B Battles, W B Munier, J M Loeb
• Falls in English and Welsh hospitals: a national observational study based on retrospective analysis of 12 months of patient safety incident reports (8 December, 2008)

  F Healey, S Scobie, D Oliver, A Pryce, R Thomson, B Glampson
• Do falls and falls-injuries in hospital indicate negligent care—and how big is the risk? A retrospective analysis of the NHS Litigation Authority Database of clinical negligence claims, resulting from falls in hospitals in England 1995 to 2006 (8 December, 2008)

  D Oliver, S Killick, T Even, M Willmott