This issue includes items on women’s health, human rights, general practice, mental health, culture, medication safety, clinical quality registries and more.
Also covered are new issues of the International Journal for Quality in Health Care, Healthcare Quarterly, Healthcare Papers, Health Affairs, and BMJ Leader, along with the latest online papers from BMJ Quality & Safety and the International Journal for Quality in Health Care and the latest from NICE and the National Institute for Health Research in the UK.
A safety statement recommending that established metered dose inhalers are prescribed and communicated by the metered dose.
Purpose
To reduce multiple failed insertion attempts that increase the risk of device failure and cause patients undue pain and anxiety, as well as diminished vascular health.
A classification system to assist with the assessment of the consequences and scale (or magnitude) of EMM-related adverse events and incidents. The classification also rates the potential and actual harm associated with these events.
A classification system for problems associated with the use of health IT systems, developed by Magrabi and colleagues. it was developed by examining 'natural categories' of problems described in incidents from a range of health care settings in Australia, the USA and England.
Guidance for hospitals on classifying electronic medication management (EMM)-related adverse events and incidents (The Guidance).
The Guidance supports the classification of EMM-related adverse events and incidents, and assists with assessing and classifying the scale and consequence of actual or potential harm.
A classification system for prescribing and medicine administration adverse events and incidents based on a system developed by Westbrook and colleagues and informed by a medication incident taxonomy developed in Victoria.
Credentialed practitioners are part of a health service organisation's clinical workforce and as such are subject to the requirements of the National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards.