International journal for quality in health care : journal of the International Society for Quality in Health Care
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Although patient safety climate is an important factor in preventing adverse events in health care organizations, there is no usable Japanese scale. ⋯ The scale showed acceptable dimensionality, reliability and validity. It also provided workplace team-evaluation and a tool for assessing the patient safety climate at the level of the workplace.
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Int J Qual Health Care · Jun 2008
Psychometric evaluation of the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer in-patient satisfaction with care questionnaire ('Sinhala' version) for use in a South-Asian setting.
Patients' satisfaction with cancer care has not been studied in detail in the South-Asian region in spite of rising cancer incidence. ⋯ The translated version of the IN-PATSAT32 has proved to be a reliable and valid measure of satisfaction with cancer care in patients with heterogeneous cancer diagnoses in Sri Lanka.
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Int J Qual Health Care · Jun 2008
Non-referral of unnatural deaths to coroners and non-reporting of unnatural deaths on death certificates in Taiwan: implications of using mortality data to monitor quality and safety in healthcare.
Mortality data has often been used to monitor the quality of cardiac care. ⋯ The sensitivity of using mortality data alone to detect known or suspected unnatural deaths varied according to the types of injury and external causes. Monitoring cause of death data linked with hospital discharge record data could provide a better system for discovering these unnatural deaths.