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| William B RuncimanSummaryAffiliation: University of Adelaide and Royal Adelaide Hospital Country: Australia Publications
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Violence in health care: the contribution of the Australian Patient Safety Foundation to incident monitoring and analysisKlee 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...
Crisis management during anaesthesia: the development of an anaesthetic crisis management manualW 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)...
Crisis management during anaesthesia: cardiac arrestW 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...
Crises in clinical care: an approach to managementW 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...
Shared meanings: preferred terms and definitions for safety and quality conceptsWilliam 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
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...
Tracing the foundations of a conceptual framework for a patient safety ontologyWilliam 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....
Evaluation of an intervention aimed at improving voluntary incident reporting in hospitalsSue M Evans
Department of Medicine, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Qual Saf Health Care 16:169-75. 2007..Design,..
CareTrack Australia: assessing the appropriateness of adult healthcare: protocol for a retrospective medical record reviewTamara 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...
Adverse drug events and medication errors in AustraliaWilliam 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...
Evaluation of two methods for quality improvement in intensive care: facilitated incident monitoring and retrospective medical chart reviewUrsula 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...
