Purpose Preventable patient harm due to adverse events (AEs) is a significant health
problem today facing contemporary health care. Knowledge of patients' experiences of AEs …

Introduction: Opioid abuse has reached epidemic levels. Evidence-based treatments such
as buprenorphine maintenance therapy (BMT) remain underutilized. Offering BMT in primary …

Background: Mixed methods research has emerged alongside qualitative and quantitative
approaches as an important tool for health services researchers. Despite growing interest …

Objective Studies of patient safety in health care have traditionally focused on hospital
medicine. However, recent years have seen more research located in primary care settings …

Background: Healthcare practices involve risks for patients, but there has been little
research to date on the occurrence of adverse events (AE) in primary care (PC). The …

Purpose To summarize the knowledge about the aftermath of adverse events (AEs) and
develop a recommendation set to reduce their negative impact in patients, health …

Background Patients have been shown to report accurate observations of medical errors
and adverse events. Various methods of introducing patient reporting into patient safety …

Introduction Patient safety research has tended to focus on hospital settings, although most
clinical encounters occur in primary care, and to emphasize practitioner errors, rather than …

Objective: A crucial yet currently insufficient step in biomedical research is the translation of
scientific, evidence-based guidelines and recommendations into constructs and language …

The above is a hypothetical example of a well-conceived, rigorous study with solid outcomes
whose investigators find themselves at a loss for why they cannot move its findings into …