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| Marleen SmitsSummaryAffiliation: Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research Country: The Netherlands Publications
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To what extent are adverse events found in patient records reported by patients and healthcare professionals via complaints, claims and incident reports?Ingrid Christiaans-Dingelhoff
EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, Department of Public and Occupational Health, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
BMC Health Serv Res 11:49. 2011..The aim of the study is to examine to what extent the hospital reporting systems cover the adverse events identified by patient record review...- The psychometric properties of the 'Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture' in Dutch hospitalsMarleen Smits
NIVEL, Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research, PO Box 1568, 3500 BN Utrecht, The Netherlands
BMC Health Serv Res 8:230. 2008..The aim of this study was to examine the underlying dimensions and psychometric properties of the questionnaire in Dutch hospital settings, and to compare these results with the original questionnaire used in USA hospital settings... - Analysis of unintended events in hospitals: inter-rater reliability of constructing causal trees and classifying root causesMarleen Smits
Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research, PO Box 1568, NIVEL, 3500 BN Utrecht, The Netherlands
Int J Qual Health Care 21:292-300. 2009..It is important that root cause analysis tools are reliable, because they form the basis for patient safety interventions... - Measuring patient safety culture: an assessment of the clustering of responses at unit level and hospital levelM Smits
NIVEL, Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Qual Saf Health Care 18:292-6. 2009.... - The nature and causes of unintended events reported at ten emergency departmentsMarleen Smits
NIVEL, Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research, Utrecht, The Netherlands
BMC Emerg Med 9:16. 2009..The objectives of our study are to examine the nature and causes of unintended events in EDs and the relationship between type of event and causal factor structure... - Exploring the causes of adverse events in hospitals and potential prevention strategiesM Smits
NIVEL, Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research, PO Box 1568, 3500 BN Utrecht, The Netherlands
Qual Saf Health Care 19:e5. 2010..To examine the causes of adverse events (AEs) and potential prevention strategies to minimise the occurrence of AEs in hospitalised patients... - Adverse events and potentially preventable deaths in Dutch hospitals: results of a retrospective patient record review studyM Zegers
NIVEL, Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Qual Saf Health Care 18:297-302. 2009..This study determined the incidence, type, nature, preventability and impact of adverse events (AEs) among hospitalised patients and potentially preventable deaths in Dutch hospitals... - Nature, causes and consequences of unintended events in surgical unitsI van Wagtendonk
Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research NIVEL, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Br J Surg 97:1730-40. 2010..This observational study examined the nature, causes and consequences of unintended events in surgical units, and the completeness of event reporting... - First contact incidence of psychotic disorders among native Dutch and Moroccan immigrants in the Netherlands: influence of diagnostic biasT Zandi
Altrecht, Institute for Mental Health Care, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Schizophr Res 119:27-33. 2010..Several studies have reported increased incidence rates of psychotic disorders among immigrant groups. Surprisingly, the cross-cultural validity of the diagnostic instruments that were used was never tested...