Although a specific GH deficiency (GHD) syndrome in the adult and the response to GH
replacement therapy are well recognized, there are few data available on the effect of GH …

Background: Diagnostic errors are a major patient safety concern in primary healthcare and
emergency care. These settings involve a high degree of uncertainty regarding patients' …

Idiopathic osteoporosis in middle-aged men is characterized by low-level bone formation.
Inhibited anabolism may be involved in the pathogenesis of the disease and amino acids …

Objective: To explore how patients, that had experienced harm in primary care, and how
primary providers and practice managers understood reasons for harm and possibilities to …

Blockade of central α 1-adrenoceptors has been implicated as a possible factor contributing
to the atypical antipsychotic profile of clozapine. Thus, in the present study we examined the …

Background Patient safety issues in primary health care and in emergency departments
have not been as thoroughly explored as patient safety issues in the hospital setting …

Background A promising approach to manage clinical uncertainty and thereby reduce the
risk of preventable diagnostic harm is to use safety-netting advice (ie, communicating …

Background Quality improvement (QI) is necessary in all healthcare, but quality of
healthcare is hard to measure. To use financial incentives to improve care is difficult and …

Abstract Objective To (1) validate and (2) display initial results of surveys to health care
professionals and patients on the importance and mitigation of specified risks for diagnostic …

Abstract Boo Health Centre in Nacka, Sweden, manages approximately 240 patients on
warfarin treatment. A risk analysis showed that testing and prescribing of warfarin involved …