Background Miscommunications are a leading cause of serious medical errors. Data from
multicenter studies assessing programs designed to improve handoff of information about …

Background Many programs struggle to recruit, select, and match a diverse class of
residents, and the most effective strategies for holistic review of applications to enhance …

Patient handoffs are a key source of communication failures and adverse events in
hospitals. Despite Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education requirements for …

Objective To determine whether medical errors, family experience, and communication
processes improved after implementation of an intervention to standardize the structure of …

Interprofessional has become a popular buzzword in healthcare, espoused by professional
organizations, accrediting agencies, and credentialing bodies. 1–3 The push toward …

Importance Medical errors and adverse events (AEs) are common among hospitalized
children. While clinician reports are the foundation of operational hospital safety surveillance …

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the relationship between cerebellar hemorrhage in preterm
infants seen on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), but not on ultrasonography, and …

Hospital laboratory test volume is increasing, and overutilization contributes to errors and
costs. Efforts to reduce laboratory utilization have targeted aspects of ordering behavior, but …

Problem Quality improvement (QI) and patient safety (PS) are cornerstones of health care
delivery. Accreditation organizations increasingly require that learners engage in QIPS. For …

Background Handoff miscommunications are a leading source of medical errors. Harmful
medical errors decreased in pediatric academic hospitals following implementation of the I …