Since its publication in the Journal in 1961, “The Ecology of Medical Care,” by White et al., 1
has provided a framework for thinking about the organization of health care, medical …

Objective: To develop a preliminary taxonomy of primary care medical errors. Design:
Qualitative analysis to identify categories of error reported during a randomized controlled trial of …

BACKGROUND Notions about the most common errors in medicine currently rest on conjecture
and weak epidemiologic evidence. We sought to determine whether cascade analysis is …

… Dovey and colleagues11 reported physicianobserved errors regardless of whether they
were associated with an adverse event. Britten and coworkers16 analyzed …

… SM Dovey1, … Dovey SM, Phillips RL, Green LA. Medical errors affecting vulnerable primary
care … Elder N, Dovey S. Classification of medical errors and preventable adverse events in …

Objectives: To develop an international taxonomy describing errors reported by general
practitioners in Australia and five other countries. Design and setting: GPs in Australia, Canada, …

Summary. A study was conducted to determine whether the attitudes of medical students to
death and caring changed during the 3 months following exposure to cadaver dissection. All …

OBJECTIVES: To map the pattern of involvement in physical activities by adolescents at ages
15 and 18 years. METHODS: Data from a longitudinal cohort study were used. Participants …

The Netherlands is the latest country to announce the development of a national medical
error reporting system. 1 Australia has had one since 1989, Denmark has one, the UK …

AIM: To examine differences in morbidity and rates of hospital admission between diabetes
patients and patients without diabetes in New Zealand. METHODS: A 1123 and 11,325 …