Quality care and patient safety: Global approaches to medical error disclosure

Background: Patient safety places emphasis on full disclosure, transparency, and a commitment to prevent future errors. Studies addressing the disclosure of medication errors in the profession of pharmacy are lacking. Objective: This study examined attitudes and behaviors of American pharmacists regarding medication errors and their disclosure to patients. Methods: A 4-page questionnaire was mailed to a nationwide random sample of 2,002 pharmacists. It included items to assess pharmacists’ knowledge of and experience with medication errors and their disclosure. The data was collected over three months and analyzed using IBM SPSS 22.0. The study received IRB exempt status. Results: The response rate was 12.6% (n = 252). The average pharmacist respondent was a 57-year old (+ 12.1 years), Caucasian (79.8%), male (59.9%), with a BS Pharmacy degree (73.8%), and licensed for 33 years (+ 12.8 years). Most respondents were employed in a hospital (26.4%) or community (31.0 %) setting and held staff (30.9%), manager (29.1%), or clinical staff (20.6%) positions. Respondents reported having been involved in a medication error as a patient (31.0%) or a pharmacist (95.5%). The data suggest that full disclosure is not being achieved by pharmacists. Significant differences in some attitudes and behaviors were uncovered when community pharmacists were compared to their hospital counterparts. Conclusion: There is room for improvement regarding proper medication error disclosure by pharmacists.

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Evaluasi Safety Attitude Culture pada Perawat di Ruang Operasi PKU Muhammadiyah Gamping

Jurnal Ilmiah Universitas Batanghari Jambi ◽

10.33087/jiubj.v20i1.759 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 20 (1) ◽

pp. 253

Author(s):

Irma Wulandari ◽

Titih Huriah ◽

Sri Sundari

Keyword(s):

Patient Safety ◽

Medical Error ◽

Mixed Methods Research ◽

Safety Climate ◽

Descriptive Analysis ◽

Sampling Technique ◽

Research Approach ◽

Safety Attitudes ◽

High Category ◽

Safety Attitude

In Indonesia, the incidence of medical error is quite high as evidenced by the existence of hospital incident reports, where in 2010 there were 75% of unexpected events and in 2011 as many as 60% of cases of surgical cases or patients with surgery. Medical error is one of the unwanted events, which occurred in various countries. Therefore it begins to develop a patient safety system. In order to carry out these functions, hospital should be able to carry out management based on customer oriented and patient safety by implementing a safety attitude culture. The purpose of this study was to determine the safety attitude culture evaluation of nurses in surgery rooms of PKU Muhammadiyah Gamping. This research was a research using a mixed methods research approach; namely a quantitative method with a descriptive approach and qualitative methods with a case study approach. The population in this study was nurses in surgery room with a total sampling technique of 20 people. The questionnaire in this study referred to the Surgery room Version of Safety Attitudes Questionnaire. Quantitative data analysis used descriptive analysis; while qualitative analysis was performed by data reduction, data presentation, and drawing conclusions/verification. The results shows that overall evaluation of safety culture attitude of nurses in the surgery room summed up in the high category (75,0 %). Meanwhile based on the safety attitude culture component, namely safety climate is in the high category (85,0%), team working climate is in the high category (90,0%), stress recognition is in the high category (65,0%), management perceptions is in the moderate category ( 75,0%), working conditions is in the high category (60,0%), job satisfaction is in the high category (90,0%).

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Instrument for Measuring Patient Safety Culture: Literature Review

Jurnal Medicoeticolegal dan Manajemen Rumah Sakit ◽

10.18196/jmmr.v10i2.11253 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

pp. 158-176

Author(s):

Yumna Nur Millati Hanifa ◽

Inge Dhamanti

Keyword(s):

Patient Safety ◽

Literature Review ◽

Safety Culture ◽

Quality Care ◽

Patient Safety Culture ◽

Health Facilities ◽

Healthcare Organizations ◽

Just Culture ◽

Safety Attitudes ◽

Four Dimensions

The implementation of safe and quality care with attention to patient safety, requires organization’s effort to create and cultivating patient safety culture. The purpose of this article was to map the instruments used in measuring patient safety culture in healthcare organizations. The method used integrated literature review from various sources of research articles published from 2015 to 2020. The article included if it was available in full text and open access as well as articles described the instruments of patient safety culture or measurement of patient safety culture using one of the instruments of measurement of patient safety culture. The results of the literature review unravel the findings of three instruments such as HSOPSC (Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture), MaPSaF (Manchester Patient Safety Assessment Framework) and SAQ (Safety Attitudes Questionnaire). We concluded all three instruments contained four dimensions of patient safety culture, namely open culture, just culture, reporting culture and learning culture and were widely used to measure patient safety culture in hospitals, primary health facilities and other health facilities.

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Menerapkan Kebijakan Untuk Keselamatan Pasien

10.31227/osf.io/89dzp ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Eva Eryanti Harahap

Keyword(s):

Adverse Event ◽

Patient Safety ◽

Medical Error ◽

Near Miss

Keselamatan pasien itu sangat penting dan menjadi tuntutan bagi rumah sakit untuk melaksanakannya karena rumah sakit sangat berpotensi terjadinya risiko berupa kesalahan medis (medical error), kejadian yang tidak diharapkan (adverse event) dan nyaris terjadi (near miss). Untuk itu, , Kementerian Kesehatan Republik Indonesia telah menerbitkan Panduan Nasional Keselamatan Pasien (Patient Safety) di Rumah Sakit tahun 2008 yang terdiri dari 7 standar, yaitu: 1) hak pasien, 2) mendidik pasien dan keluarga, 3) keselamatan pasien dan kesinambungan pelayanan, 4) penggunaan metode peningkatan kinerja untuk melakukan evaluasi dan program, 5) peningkatan keselamatan pasien, 6)mendidik staf tentang keselamatan kerja, dan 7) komunikasi merupakan kunci bagi staf untuk mencapai keselamatan pasien. Dan agar tercapainya standar tersebut Panduan Nasional menganjurkan 7 Langkah Menuju Keselamatan Pasien Rumah Sakit, yaitu: 1) bangun kesadaran akan keselamatan pasien, 2) pimpin staf, 3) integrasikan aktivitas pengelolaan risiko, 4) kembangkan sistem pelaporan, 5) libatkan dan berkomunikasi dengan pasien, 6) belajar dari berbagai pengalaman tentang keselamatan pasien, dan 7) cegah cedera melalui implementasi sistem keselamatan pasien

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