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Patient safety: Technology and design can help

Improving the performance of skilled medical professionals is unlikely to be achieved by exhorting them to work better, faster, or more cheaply. They are already making decisions, planning their time, remembering key... Read More

Guest editorial--Primum non nocere (First, do no harm): How do we improve patient safety?

In Canada, more deaths occur from adverse events in hospitals than from breast cancer, motor vehicle accidents, and AIDS combined,[1] and many of these adverse events have been judged preventable.[2] Every day... Read More

Clinical decision support systems

A large part of any physician’s work, especially in non-procedural disciplines, involves acquiring information and then, aided by evidence and experience, making decisions for the best possible outcome. In earlier days... Read More