Commentary Commentaire geon, cardiologist and head of pediatric surgery should have
had when the OR nurses and anesthesiologists “voiced concerns about surgical results.” 1 …

Policy Points: Health care complaints contain valuable data on quality and safety; however,
there is no reliable method of analysis to unlock their potential. We demonstrate a method to …

In the September issue of The Milbank Quarterly, Gillespie and Reader1 point to the
valuable and unique user-centered insights on quality and safety that can be revealed …

New legislation in Saskatchewan—the first of its kind in Canada—will soon require
mandatory reporting of all medical errors to the province's Department of Health …

In the wake of adverse events, injured patients and their families have a complex range of
needs and wants. The tort system, even when operating at its best, will inevitably fall far …

Learning from medical errors to prevent their recurrence is an important component of any
healthcare system's quality and safety improvement functions. Traditionally, this been …

Medical Education the operations [cardiovascular procedures and cancer resections]
frequently, regardless of the number of such operations performed at their hospitals.” 7 The …

Recent studies of medical errors have estimated errors may account for as many as 251,000
deaths annually in the United States (US)., making medical errors the third leading cause of …

Medical errors kill 24,000 Canadians each year, adversely affect hundreds of thousands,
and cost close to two billion dollars. Victims of medical errors and their families who speak …

The 516-page report (www. pediatric cardiacinquest. mb. ca) found that in most of the cases
parents had not been given enough information—particularly about the surgeon's relative …