Never events (NEs) are serious clinical incidents. Assessing the trends of these incidents over the years will help direct efforts towards specific areas for improvement. The NHS has made significant efforts in this direction by introducing the National Safety Standards for Invasive Procedures (NatSSIPs) in 2015 and updating them in 2023. This study aims to assess the trends of the common themes of NEs and highlight potential solutions in the available literature and NatSSIPs.

It has been over 50 years since health conditions in physicians were first suggested to affect their fitness-to-practice, with consequent impacts on patient safety and patient care. Recent policy positions from physician regulatory bodies express a desire for clarity regarding the impact of these health conditions alongside their standardization in physician regulatory processes. Furthermore, these conditions have not been fully enumerated. Therefore, this scoping review intended to find all health conditions which were identified in the literature to impact physician fitness-to-practice.

Perioperative patient safety aims to minimize risk and reduce adverse events throughout the surgical journey. Despite investments in national and international initiatives, sustaining these efforts remains a challenge. Contextual factors such as national policies and legal requirements play a key role in ensuring long-term success. This qualitative study examines the national patient safety policies and frameworks in five European countries and investigates contextual factors to understand how these policies may affect the implementation and sustainability of perioperative patient safety initiatives.

Efforts to identify the prevalence rate of adverse events have been implemented in hospital settings using different methods. The trigger tool method constitutes one option and involves a retrospective review of paper-based, electronic, or hybrid medical records. The aim of the systematic review was to provide a comprehensive description of the predictive value of trigger tools used to identify adverse events in hospitalized patients.

Cytotoxic preparations are high-risk medications that require complete medication management process to minimize human error and improving patient safety. To achieve this, information technology solutions have been implemented in the healthcare service, and identification of chemotherapy bags through barcode readers and radiofrequency identification (RFID) has been established. The objective of this study was to analyse the a priori impact of these technologies on the chemotherapy process.

Demand for home hospice care has been increasing as it allows patients with end-stage disease to receive end-of-life care in a familiar environment. This study aimed to investigate the factors associated with home hospice utilization among patients with end-stage cancer who utilized hospice services.

Patient-centred care is a cornerstone for healthcare quality, leading many hospitals to implement programs that prioritize patient, even within time-constrained clinical environments. Effects of these programs are poorly evaluated.

Patient complaints are valuable indicators of systemic issues in healthcare, offering opportunities to enhance care quality and safety. Obstetrics and gynecology (OBGYN) is a specialty particularly prone to complaints, reflecting its unique challenges related to patient population, sensitive subject matter, and physician-patient dynamics. The impact of physician sex on patient complaints is not well understood, particularly taking into context the changing demographics of the OBGYN workforce.

Prolonged hospital length of stay (LOS) drains both human and material hospital resources as well having a deleterious psychological and physiological effect on the patient. Some patients are at higher risk of a prolonged LOS, and it is important to identify them in the first days after admission so as to implement appropriate measures as soon as possible. This allows staff and bed occupancy needs to be programmed, as well as appropriate social services on discharge from hospital. Prolonged LOS depends on a wide range of clinical, demographic, and healthcare parameters, which are present in hospital information systems. We hypothesized that the variables recorded by physicians in the first 2 days of hospitalization reflect their precise knowledge of the patient's condition and could be used to predict prolonged LOS. We aimed to develop a prediction model based on a restricted number of the many parameters available in the first 2 days after admission.

Although paediatric Rapid Response System implementation is gradually increasing worldwide, the characteristics of paediatric Rapid Response Systems and factors associated with adverse outcomes remain underexplored. In this study, we aimed to investigate the characteristics of paediatric Rapid Response Systems and factors associated with adverse outcomes by analysing data from a multicentre Rapid Response System registry in Japan.