Journal of patient safety
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Journal of patient safety · Dec 2012
Speaking up and sharing information improves trainee neonatal resuscitations.
To identify teamwork behaviors associated with improving efficiency and quality of simulated resuscitation training. ⋯ Teamwork behaviors of assertion and sharing information are 2 important mediators of efficiency and quality of resuscitations.
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Journal of patient safety · Dec 2012
Patient involvement in patient safety: the health-care professional's perspective.
Despite increasing recognition that patients could play an important role in promoting the safety of their care, little is known on this issue regarding health-care professionals' (HCPs') attitudes toward patient involvement. ⋯ Compared with other research on "lay" patients' attitudes, our data suggest that when HCPs are patients in hospital, they may be more willing to participate in safety-related behaviors. Promisingly, our data also suggest HCPs are willing to support patient involvement in safety-related behaviors, which may suggest they are happy to participate in interventions aimed at encouraging patient involvement in this area. Further in-depth research is needed to investigate the roles that HCPs (as both a patient and HCP) believe are appropriate for patients to participate in, under what circumstances and why.
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Journal of patient safety · Dec 2012
Patient views and attitudes to physician's actions after medical errors in China.
To explore Chinese patients' views on physician disclosure actions after an adverse event and their acceptance of different types of apologies from the physician who caused the event. ⋯ Chinese patients' suspicion about health-care staff disclosure actions is rather strong. In addition, a large difference was identified in the level of patient acceptance between a physician's "full" or "partial" apology. Therefore, it is suggested that Chinese hospitals should adopt an "open" policy, which should include a "sincere" apology to the patient who experienced a medical error to maintain mutual trusts between the staff and patients.
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Journal of patient safety · Sep 2012
Integrating patient safety standards into the accreditation program: a qualitative study to assess the readiness of Lebanese hospitals to implement into routine practice.
Concerns about quality of care have led to the integration of patient safety standards and goals in national and international accreditation programs. Since 2005, two national hospital accreditation surveys have been conducted in Lebanon. In 2010, the Ministry of Health integrated patient safety standards into the current program. This study is one of the first efforts in Lebanon and the region to assess hospitals' readiness to integrate patient safety standards into routine practice. ⋯ Integrating patient safety initiatives into routine practices requires a cultural shift in health-care organizations. Before assessing whether hospitals comply with patient safety standards, it is important to provide them with sufficient training and education on how to successfully implement these standards. Study findings provide valuable lessons for Lebanon and other countries, which are in the process or currently mandating the implementation of patient safety standards and/or accreditation programs.
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Journal of patient safety · Sep 2012
The cost of harm and savings through safety: using simulated patients for leadership decision support.
The ultimate objective of this program is to provide an approach to understanding and communicating health-care harm and cost to compel health-care provider leadership teams to vote "yes" to investments in patient safety initiatives, with the confidence that clinical, financial, and operational performance will be improved by such programs. ⋯ The final result of this project was to demonstrate a prototype leadership decision-support investment model approach that addresses clinical, operational, and financial performance for typical hospitals.