William B Runciman

Summary

Affiliation: University of Adelaide and Royal Adelaide Hospital
Country: Australia

Publications

  1. ncbi Violence in health care: the contribution of the Australian Patient Safety Foundation to incident monitoring and analysis
    Klee A Benveniste
    Australian Patient Safety Foundation, GPO Box 400, Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia
    Med J Aust 183:348-51. 2005
  2. ncbi Crisis management during anaesthesia: the development of an anaesthetic crisis management manual
    W B Runciman
    Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, University of Adelaide and Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
    Qual Saf Health Care 14:e1. 2005
  3. ncbi Crisis management during anaesthesia: cardiac arrest
    W B Runciman
    Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, University of Adelaide and Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
    Qual Saf Health Care 14:e14. 2005
  4. ncbi Crises in clinical care: an approach to management
    W B Runciman
    Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, University of Adelaide and Royal Adelaide Hospital, South Australia
    Qual Saf Health Care 14:156-63. 2005
  5. ncbi Shared meanings: preferred terms and definitions for safety and quality concepts
    William B Runciman
    Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Royal Adelaide Hospital, and University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    Med J Aust 184:S41-3. 2006
  6. ncbi Mapping the limits of safety reporting systems in health care--what lessons can we actually learn?
    Matthew J W Thomas
    School of Psychology, Social Work and Social Policy, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
    Med J Aust 194:635-9. 2011
  7. ncbi Tracing the foundations of a conceptual framework for a patient safety ontology
    William B Runciman
    The University of South Australia and the Safety and Quality Research Unit, Joanna Briggs Institute, Adelaide, Australia
    Qual Saf Health Care 19:e56. 2010
  8. ncbi Evaluation of an intervention aimed at improving voluntary incident reporting in hospitals
    Sue M Evans
    Department of Medicine, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
    Qual Saf Health Care 16:169-75. 2007
  9. ncbi CareTrack Australia: assessing the appropriateness of adult healthcare: protocol for a retrospective medical record review
    Tamara D Hunt
    School of Psychology, Social Work and Social Policy, Division of Education, Arts and Social Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
    BMJ Open 2:e000665. 2012
  10. ncbi Adverse drug events and medication errors in Australia
    William B Runciman
    Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Level 4, Eleanor Harrald Building, Royal Adelaide Hospital, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia
    Int J Qual Health Care 15:i49-59. 2003

Detail Information

Publications11

  1. ncbi Violence in health care: the contribution of the Australian Patient Safety Foundation to incident monitoring and analysis
    Klee A Benveniste
    Australian Patient Safety Foundation, GPO Box 400, Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia
    Med J Aust 183:348-51. 2005
    ..We recommend that a national system be developed to share and compare incident monitoring data, to monitor trends, and to facilitate learning and thinking at all levels - ward, department, hospital, state and national...
  2. ncbi Crisis management during anaesthesia: the development of an anaesthetic crisis management manual
    W B Runciman
    Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, University of Adelaide and Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
    Qual Saf Health Care 14:e1. 2005
    ..Sub-algorithms were therefore developed for these problems so that they could be checked for applicability and validity against the first 4000 anaesthesia incidents reported to the Australian Incident Monitoring Study (AIMS)...
  3. ncbi Crisis management during anaesthesia: cardiac arrest
    W B Runciman
    Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, University of Adelaide and Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
    Qual Saf Health Care 14:e14. 2005
    ..However, as individual practitioners encounter cardiac arrest rarely, the rapidity with which the diagnosis is made and the consistency of appropriate management varies considerably...
  4. ncbi Crises in clinical care: an approach to management
    W B Runciman
    Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, University of Adelaide and Royal Adelaide Hospital, South Australia
    Qual Saf Health Care 14:156-63. 2005
    ..This approach to crisis management should be applied to other areas of clinical medicine as well as anaesthesia...
  5. ncbi Shared meanings: preferred terms and definitions for safety and quality concepts
    William B Runciman
    Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Royal Adelaide Hospital, and University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia
    Med J Aust 184:S41-3. 2006
  6. ncbi Mapping the limits of safety reporting systems in health care--what lessons can we actually learn?
    Matthew J W Thomas
    School of Psychology, Social Work and Social Policy, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
    Med J Aust 194:635-9. 2011
    ..To assess the utility of Australian health care incident reporting systems and determine the depth of information available within a typical system...
  7. ncbi Tracing the foundations of a conceptual framework for a patient safety ontology
    William B Runciman
    The University of South Australia and the Safety and Quality Research Unit, Joanna Briggs Institute, Adelaide, Australia
    Qual Saf Health Care 19:e56. 2010
    ....
  8. ncbi Evaluation of an intervention aimed at improving voluntary incident reporting in hospitals
    Sue M Evans
    Department of Medicine, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
    Qual Saf Health Care 16:169-75. 2007
    ..Design,..
  9. ncbi CareTrack Australia: assessing the appropriateness of adult healthcare: protocol for a retrospective medical record review
    Tamara D Hunt
    School of Psychology, Social Work and Social Policy, Division of Education, Arts and Social Sciences, University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
    BMJ Open 2:e000665. 2012
    ..The authors will submit the results of the study to a relevant journal as well as undertaking oral presentations to researchers, clinicians and policymakers...
  10. ncbi Adverse drug events and medication errors in Australia
    William B Runciman
    Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, Level 4, Eleanor Harrald Building, Royal Adelaide Hospital, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia
    Int J Qual Health Care 15:i49-59. 2003
    ..To review information about adverse drug events (ADEs) and medication errors in Australia...
  11. ncbi Evaluation of two methods for quality improvement in intensive care: facilitated incident monitoring and retrospective medical chart review
    Ursula Beckmann
    Division of Anaesthesia, Intensive Care and Pain Management, John Hunter Hospital, Newcastle, NSW, Australia
    Crit Care Med 31:1006-11. 2003
    ..This study suggests that incident monitoring may be more useful for identifying quality problems, and it could be supplemented by selective audits and focused MCR to detect problems not reported well by FIM...