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Nurses' Perceptions of Patient Safety on Patient Safety Climate

Journal of PeriAnesthesia Nursing, 2023
The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between nurses' perception of patient safety and the safety climate.Descriptive study.The sample consisted of 262 surgical nurses. Data were collected with an online questionnaire system using the Leiden Operating Theatre and Intensive Care Safety (LOTICS) Scale and Patient Safety Climate (PSC)
Özlem Soyer ER, Yasemin Altinbaş
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Patient safety

Information Knowledge Systems Management, 2009
Patient safety is a global challenge that requires knowledge and skills in multiple areas, including human factors and systems engineering. In this chapter, numerous conceptual approaches and methods for analyzing, preventing and mitigating medical errors are described.
Pascale Carayon, Kenneth E. Wood
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Role of Patient Safety Organizations in Improving Patient Safety

Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinics of North America, 2019
Research into the incidence of harm and death resulting from medical error has continued after the release of "To Err Is Human." Although debate of the incidence of harm from medical errors continues, patient safety experts agree that medical errors still occur at considerable and unacceptable rates.
Jason, Boulanger, Carol, Keohane, Ashley, Yeats   +2 more
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Patient safety

Nursing Management, 2017
E-learning sessions to support the Freedom to Speak Up review of education and training in patient safety have been produced by NHS Health Education England.
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The Patient’s Role in Patient Safety

Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinics of North America, 2019
Keeping patients safe while they receive medical care is essential. Yet current systems designed to ensure patient safety are not enough, because medical error is the third leading cause of preventable deaths in the United States. Clinicians can partner with the patient to enhance patient safety.
Ilene, Corina, Marissa, Abram, David, Halperin   +2 more
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Integrating Patient Safety Indicators into Patient Safety Programs

Journal for Healthcare Quality, 2006
Patient safety indicators (PSIs) can be a valuable reporting tool to incorporate into patient safety plans to monitor performance and identify areas that warrant further investigation. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) developed PSIs as a low-cost tool to enable hospitals to monitor safety patterns within specific patient ...
Juliana, Hart, Geraldine, Sweeney
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Patient safety

Nursing Management, 2011
The National Patient Safety Agency has published online its 'How to' guide on venous thromboembolism risk assessment for all patients admitted to hospital. The guide builds on existing resources and can be used to support implementation of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) Quality Standards Programme, Commissioning for ...
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Patient safety and patient error

The Lancet, 2007
1which reports that “patients make errors too”. Indeed, at fi rst glance it seems nonsensical to suggest otherwise, not least since the same observation has been made several times over the past half century. 2–4 Yet the contribution of patients (and their caregivers) to medical error has been discussed only rarely.
Buetow, S., Elwyn, G.
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Finding the patient in patient safety

Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine, 2013
In the last decade, the field of patient safety has grappled with the complexity of health-care systems by attending to the activity of frontline clinicians. This article extends the field by highlighting the activity of patients and their carers in determining the safety of these systems. We draw on data from three studies exploring patients’ accounts
Su-yin, Hor, Natalya, Godbold, Aileen, Collier, Rick, Iedema   +3 more
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Patient safety

Nursing Management, 2008
The National Patient Safety Agency has developed a training pack designed to improve awareness of how factors can combine to increase risk to patients.
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