Risk perception in the health care domain, between clinical risk and practitioners' safety: A study among operating theatre practitioners

Recent shifts in the abortion provision landscape have generated increased concern about how people find abortion care as regulations make abortion less accessible and clinics close. Few studies examine the reasons that people select particular facilities in such constrained contexts. Drawing from interviews with 41 Ohio residents, we find that people’s clinic selections are influenced by the risks they associate with abortion care. Participants’ strategies for selecting an abortion clinic included: drawing on previous experience with clinics, consulting others online, discerning reputation through name recognition and clinic type, and considering location, especially perceptions about place (privacy, legality, safety). We argue that social myths inform the risks people anticipate when seeking health care facilities, shaping care seeking in ways that are both abortion-specific and more general. These findings can also inform research in other health care contexts where patients increasingly find their options constrained by rising costs, consolidation, and facility closure.

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Surgeons in the operating theatre: preparing to lead by example

Bulletin of The Royal College of Surgeons of England ◽

10.1308/147363508x359529 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 90 (9) ◽

pp. 306-307

Author(s):

K Woo

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Patient Safety ◽

Adverse Events ◽

Operating Theatre ◽

Traditional Practices ◽

Consent Forms ◽

Operative Site ◽

Current Climate ◽

Theatre Staff

Surgeons, anaesthetists and theatre staff have always worked to ensure that no harm comes to their patients, particularly within the operating theatre environment. Patient safety and the prevention of adverse events underlie many of our traditional practices such as the use of identity bracelets, consent forms and marking of the operative site. Perhaps even more so today than ever, unnecessary or avoidable mistakes in the operating theatre cannot be afforded, with the current climate of increasing standards of health care and rising expectations.

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Risk perception in health care—A study of differences across organizational interfaces

Advances in Safety, Reliability and Risk Management ◽

10.1201/b11433-253 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 1808-1816

Author(s):

S Wiig

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Risk Perception

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Knowledge and risk perception of sexually transmitted infections and relevant health care services among high school students in the Platfontein San community, Northern Cape Province, South Africa

Adolescent Health Medicine and Therapeutics ◽

10.2147/ahmt.s154401 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol Volume 9 ◽

pp. 189-197

Author(s):

Peter Nyasulu ◽

Mercedes Fredericks ◽

Tariro J Basera ◽

Sean Broomhead

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

High School ◽

Health Care ◽

High School Students ◽

Risk Perception ◽

Health Care Services ◽

School Students ◽

Sexually Transmitted ◽

Care Services ◽

Northern Cape

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Risk Perception and Worries among Health Care Workers in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Findings from an Italian Survey

Healthcare ◽

10.3390/healthcare8040535 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 8 (4) ◽

pp. 535

Author(s):

Mariangela Valentina Puci ◽

Guido Nosari ◽

Federica Loi ◽

Giulia Virginia Puci ◽

Cristina Montomoli ◽

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Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Risk Perception ◽

Health Care Providers ◽

Health Care Workers ◽

Health Care Professionals ◽

Sleep Disturbances ◽

Well Being ◽

Care Providers ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Care Workers

The ongoing pandemic scenario, due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), has had a considerable impact on public health all over the world. Italy was one of the most affected countries, as the first European full-blown outbreak occurred there. The exposure of the Italian health care workers to COVID-19 may be an important risk factor for psychological distress. The aim of this cross-sectional study was to describe worries and risk perception of being infected among Italian Health Care Workers (HCWs) during the first wave of the pandemic. In total, 2078 HCWs participated in a web survey (78.8% were females). The highest percentage of respondents were physicians (40.75%) and nurses (32.15%), followed by medical (18.00%), health care support (4.50%) and administrative (4.60%) staff. In a score range between 0 (not worried) and 4 (very worried), our results showed that participants declared that they were worried about the Coronavirus infection with a median score of 3 (IQR 2-3) and for 59.19% the risk perception of being infected was very high. In addition, HCWs reported they suffered from sleep disturbances (63.43%). From the analysis of the psychological aspect, a possible divergence emerged between the perceived need for psychological support (83.85%) and the relative lack of this service among health care providers emerged (9.38%). Our findings highlight the importance of psychological and psychiatric support services not only during the COVID-19 pandemic, but also in other emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) scenarios. These services may be useful for health authorities and policymakers to ensure the psychological well-being of health care professionals and to promote precautionary behaviors among them.

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Risk Perception during Information System Development in Non-Profit Health Care Organizations

Methods of Information in Medicine ◽

10.1055/s-0038-1634536 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 37 (03) ◽

pp. 302-306 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

T. Timpka ◽

M. Ljunggren ◽

V. Vimarlund

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Information System ◽

Risk Perception ◽

System Development ◽

Secondary Analysis ◽

Decision Makers ◽

Development Projects ◽

Design Team ◽

Information System Development ◽

Team Members

AbstractThe perception of risk exposure among design team members during the early phases of information system development projects can provide valuable strategic information for clinical organizations. To develop a typology of perceived risks during information system development projects in health care, interviews were performed with key team members from a specialist clinic, primary health care, and an informatics research group, during the requirements specification. Phenomenological data analysis and secondary integration of the results in available theories were performed. System objectives, the user requirements definition procedure, the communication pattern between design team members and project management were found to be perceived as the main risk areas. In the secondary analysis, the technical factors, identified as preventing a maximization of the use of the resources, were lack of informatics knowledge among economic decision makers and differences between customers and suppliers regarding their views on the nature of system design. During the implementation of a given strategy, decision makers may consider the requests of their own sponsors in the first place and maximize the use ofthe project resources in the second place. Informatics knowledge plays a key role in risk perception during the development of an information system in health care. Political considerations by team members are important to take into regard, since these may influence technical and economic decisions.

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Presumed adverse events in health care are a frequent indication for medico-legal autopsy in Finland

Forensic Science Medicine and Pathology ◽

10.1007/s12024-019-00193-4 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 16 (1) ◽

pp. 65-70

Author(s):

Lasse Pakanen ◽

Noora Keinänen ◽

Paula Kuvaja

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Risk Management ◽

Adverse Event ◽

Adverse Events ◽

Gastrointestinal Surgery ◽

Legal Protection ◽

Clinical Risk Management ◽

Data Set ◽

Manner Of Death ◽

Clinical Risk

AbstractThe medico-legal autopsy is an essential tool in investigating deaths caused by an adverse event in health care, for both clinical risk management and for professional liability issues. However, there are no statistics available regarding the frequency of autopsies performed due to suspected adverse events. This study aimed to determine the number of medico-legal autopsies done because of presumed adverse events, whether these events were unintentional, medical errors or cases in which malpractice was suspected. Furthermore, differences in treatment types, causes and manner of death were analyzed. The data was obtained from all medico-legal autopsies performed in Northern Finland and Lapland during 2014–2015 (n = 2027). Adverse events were suspected in 181 (8.9%) cases. The suspicions of an adverse event occurring were most often related to medication, gastrointestinal surgery and orthopedic surgery. The manner of death was classified as medical (or surgical) treatment or investigative procedure in 22 (12.2%) cases. The causes of death were completely unrelated to the suspected adverse event in 41 (22.7%) cases. In conclusion, the frequency of presumed adverse events was quite high in this data set, but in the majority of the cases, the suspicion of an adverse event causing death was disproved by an autopsy. Nonetheless, proper investigation of these cases is essential to ensure legal protection of the deceased, next of kin and health care personnel, as well as to support clinical risk management.

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