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William B. Runciman

Researcher at University of South Australia

Publications -  250
Citations -  13579

William B. Runciman is an academic researcher from University of South Australia. The author has contributed to research in topics: Patient safety & Health care. The author has an hindex of 55, co-authored 249 publications receiving 12919 citations. Previous affiliations of William B. Runciman include University of New South Wales & The Joanna Briggs Institute.

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The Quality in Australian Health Care Study

TL;DR: A review of the medical records of over 14 000 admissions to 28 hospitals in New South Wales and South Australia revealed that 16.6% of these admissions were associated with an “adverse event”, which resulted in disability or a longer hospital stay for the patient and was caused by health care management.
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Towards an International Classification for Patient Safety: key concepts and terms

TL;DR: This work represents the start of an ongoing process of progressively improving a common international understanding of terms and concepts relevant to patient safety, and agrees on definitions and preferred terms.
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The Australian Incident Monitoring Study: an analysis of 2000 incident reports.

TL;DR: The pattern and relative frequencies of the various categories of incidents are similar to those in “closed-claims” studies, suggesting that AIMS should provide information of relevance to those wishing to develop strategies to reduce the incidence and/or impact of incidents and accidents.
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Adverse drug events and medication errors in Australia

TL;DR: Anticoagulant, anti-inflammatory, and cardiovascular drugs feature prominently as preventable, high impact problems, and collectively make up over one-half of all ADEs.