A growing number of people are seeking health information on the Internet. To meet demands, healthcare providers are increasingly disseminating information online. While online health information has enhanced the dissemination of health information and improved people's health-related knowledge,...

Knowledge sharing has been proposed as one of the most effective ways to reduce medical errors, yet research on knowledge sharing with regard to patient safety is sparse. Because employees' knowledge behaviours are enabled or constrained by organisational structures, knowledge sharing can be...

With the evolution of the Web and development of web-based search engines, online searching has become a common method for obtaining information. Given this popularity, the question arises as to how much time people save by using search engines for their information needs compared to offline...

Patient safety improvement through management has been a prime issue since 2000, when the Institute of Medicine reported that preventable mismanagement was responsible for the majority of medical errors. Learning culture, interdisciplinary action teams, and punitive culture have been discussed...