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

Background: Limited data are available on adverse events among children admitted to hospital.
The Canadian Paediatric Adverse Events Study was done to describe the epidemiology …

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

OBJECTIVE: To quantify admission medication discrepancies in a tertiary-care, general pediatric
population, to describe their clinical importance and associated factors, and to assess a …

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

Importance Hospital engagement networks supported by the US Centers for Medicare &
Medicaid Services Partnership for Patients program have reported significant reductions in …

Background The I-PASS Handoff Study found that introduction of a handoff bundle (handoff
and teamwork training for residents, a mnemonic, a handoff tool, a faculty development …

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

Background Healthcare leaders look to high-reliability organisations (HROs) for strategies
to improve safety, despite questions about how to translate these strategies into practice. …

Background Emerging evidence has shown racial and ethnic disparities in rates of harm for
hospitalised children. Previous work has also demonstrated how highly heterogeneous …