User profiles for Susan Dovey

susan dovey

professor of general practice university of Otago
Verified email at otago.ac.nz
Cited by 7746

The ecology of medical care revisited

…, BP Yawn, D Lanier, SM Dovey - New England Journal …, 2001 - Mass Medical Soc
Since its publication in the Journal in 1961, “The Ecology of Medical Care,” by White et al., 1
has provided a framework for thinking about the organization of health care, medical …

[HTML][HTML] Treatment of postmenopausal osteoporosis with calcitriol or calcium

…, GFS Spears, J Thomson, S Dovey - New England Journal …, 1992 - Mass Medical Soc
Background and Methods. Osteoporosis is a common problem whose management is
controversial. To evaluate the efficacy and safety of calcitriol (1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D 3 ) in the …

A string of mistakes: the importance of cascade analysis in describing, counting, and preventing medical errors

SH Woolf, AJ Kuzel, SM Dovey… - The Annals of Family …, 2004 - Annals Family Med
BACKGROUND Notions about the most common errors in medicine currently rest on conjecture
and weak epidemiologic evidence. We sought to determine whether cascade analysis is …

[PDF][PDF] Classification of medical errors and preventable adverse events in primary care: a synthesis of the literature

NC Elder, SM Dovey - Journal of Family Practice, 2002 - academia.edu
Dovey and colleagues11 reported physicianobserved errors regardless of whether they
were associated with an adverse event. Britten and coworkers16 analyzed …

Learning from malpractice claims about negligent, adverse events in primary care in the United States

RL Phillips, LA Bartholomew, SM Dovey… - BMJ Quality & …, 2004 - qualitysafety.bmj.com
Background: The epidemiology, risks, and outcomes of errors in primary care are poorly
understood. Malpractice claims brought for negligent adverse events offer a useful insight into …

An international taxonomy for errors in general practice: a pilot study

…, M County, MR Kidd, SM Dovey - Medical Journal of …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives: To develop an international taxonomy describing errors reported by general
practitioners in Australia and five other countries. Design and setting: GPs in Australia, Canada, …

Medical errors in primary care: results of an international study of family practice.

W Rosser, S Dovey, R Bordman, D White… - Canadian Family …, 2005 - cfp.ca
OBJECTIVE To describe errors Canadian family physicians found in their practices and
reported to study investigators. To compare errors reported by Canadian family physicians with …

Computer support for determining drug dose: systematic review and meta-analysis

R Walton, S Dovey, E Harvey, N Freemantle - Bmj, 1999 - bmj.com
Objective: To review the effectiveness of computer support for determining optimum drug
dose. Design: Systematic review of comparative studies where computers gave advice to …

The ecology of medical care for children in the United States

S Dovey, M Weitzman, G Fryer, L Green, B Yawn… - …, 2003 - publications.aap.org
Background. Medical care ecology has previously been investigated for adults, but no similar
exploration has been made specifically for children. Objective. To describe proportions of …

Cluster randomized controlled trial of TIA electronic decision support in primary care

A Ranta, S Dovey, M Weatherall, D O'Dea… - Neurology, 2015 - AAN Enterprises
Objective: To test if TIA/stroke electronic decision support in primary care improves management.
Methods: Multicenter, single-blind, parallel-group, cluster randomized, controlled trial …