Using Evidence to Improve Patient Safety and the Quality of Health Care

2011 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tracey Bucknall
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Patient Safety ◽  
Quality Of Health Care ◽  
Improve Patient Safety ◽  
Improve Patient

scholarly journals Technovigilance and risk management as tools to improve patient safety in Colombian health care institutions

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (21) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrés Mauricio González Vargas ◽  
Ana María Sánchez Benavides ◽  
Andrés Felipe Betancourt Hernández ◽  
Carlos David Mantilla Ramirez
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Risk Management ◽  
Patient Safety ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Improve Patient Safety ◽  
Health Care Institutions ◽  
Improve Patient

This paper presents the results of a survey about technovigilance carried out in 21 clinical institutions from the southwest of Colombia. It also provides an analysis of how these programs take into account different risk management methodologies in order to create awareness of the importance of patient safety in all members of the staff and improve the quality of the health services provided.

Nurses' perception regarding patient safety climate and quality of health care in general hospitals in Japan

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Youko Nakano ◽  
Tetsuya Tanioka ◽  
Tomoya Yokotani ◽  
Hirokazu Ito ◽  
Misao Miyagawa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Patient Safety ◽  
Quality Of Health Care ◽  
Safety Climate ◽  
General Hospitals ◽  
Patient Safety Climate

Informatics for Patient Safety: A Nursing Research Perspective

2006 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 219-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzanne Bakken
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Information Technology ◽  
Patient Safety ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Quality Of Health Care ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Nursing Research ◽  
National Framework

In Crossing the Quality Chasm, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Committee on Quality of Health Care in America identified the critical role of information technology in designing a health system that produces care that is “safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient, and equitable” (Committee on Quality of Health Care in America, 2001, p. 164). A subsequent IOM report contends that improved information systems are essential to a new health care delivery system that “both prevents errors and learns from them when they occur” (Committee on Data Standards for Patient Safety, 2004, p. 1). This review specifically highlights the role of informatics processes and information technology in promoting patient safety and summarizes relevant nursing research. First, the components of an informatics infrastructure for patient safety are described within the context of the national framework for delivering consumer-centric and information-rich health care and using the National Health Information Infrastructure (NHII) (Thompson & Brailer, 2004). Second, relevant nursing research is summarized; this includes research studies that contributed to the development of selected infrastructure components as well as studies specifically focused on patient safety. Third, knowledge gaps and opportunities for nursing research are identified for each main topic. The health information technologies deployed as part of the national framework must support nursing practice in a manner that enables prevention of medical errors and promotion of patient safety and contributes to the development of practice-based nursing knowledge as well as best practices for patient safety. The seminal work that has been completed to date is necessary, but not sufficient, to achieve this objective.

scholarly journals Five Topics Health Care Simulation Can Address to Improve Patient Safety

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 111-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen J.M. Sollid ◽  
Peter Dieckman ◽  
Karina Aase ◽  
Eldar Søreide ◽  
Charlotte Ringsted ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Patient Safety ◽  
Improve Patient Safety ◽  
Improve Patient

scholarly journals Physician Event Reporting: Training the Next Generation of Physicians

2007 ◽  
Vol 93 (2) ◽  
pp. 26-31
Author(s):  
Quang-Tuyen Nguyen ◽  
Joanna Weinberg ◽  
Lee H. Hilborne
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Medical Students ◽  
Quality Of Health Care ◽  
Improve Patient Safety ◽  
Medical Center ◽  
Fold Increase ◽  
Professional School ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Event Reporting

ABSTRACT Physician reporting of adverse events and unsafe situations remains extremely low, despite the increased access to and use of electronic event reporting systems. We implemented an electronic, Web-based event reporting system at five University of California medical center campuses. While these campuses have witnessed approximately a three-fold increase in staff reporting following the implementation of the electronic system in 2003, physician reporting remains low — only 1.7 percent of all submitted reports were from physicians and only 4.5 percent of registered users are attending physicians and house officers. Our experience validates that of others; specifically, physician event reporting is a largely elusive practice. To change this behavior, it may be necessary to start at the beginning — to begin the discussion of error disclosure and adverse event reporting at the time when future physicians are still medical students. There have been several calls for medical schools and academic medical centers to improve patient safety and the quality of health care by explicitly educating and training the next generation of physicians in these areas. Although quality of care is implicit in most medical and other professional school curricula, medical students generally are not given the training necessary to meet the specific challenges outlined by the Institute of Medicine’s Committee on Quality of Health Care in America reports, including To Err Is Human.

scholarly journals Nursing Leadership Models in Promoting and Improving Patient’s Safety Culture in Healthcare Facilities; A Systematic Review

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yodang Yodang ◽  
Nuridah Nuridah
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Patient Safety ◽  
Safety Culture ◽  
Improve Patient Safety ◽  
Patient Safety Culture ◽  
Nursing Leadership ◽  
Health Care Facilities ◽  
Leadership Models ◽  
Care Facilities ◽  
Improve Patient

Background: Nurse leader has an important role in encouraging patient’s safety culture among nurses in the healthcare system. This literature review aims to identify the nursing leadership model and to promote and improve patient safety culture to improve patient outcomes in health care facilities including hospitals, primary health care, and nursing home settings. Methods: Searching appropriate journals through some journal databases were applied including DOAJ, GARUDA, Google Scholar, MDPI, Proquest, Pubmed, Sage Journals, ScienceDirect, and Wiley Online Library, which were published from 2015 to 2020. Results: Fourteen articles meet the criteria and are included in this review. The majority of these articles were retrieved from western countries, the US, Canada, and Finland. This review identifies three nursing leadership models that seem useful to promote and improve patient safety culture in health care facilities which are transformational, authentic, and ethical leadership models. Conclusion: The patient safety influences health care outcomes. The evidence shows the leadership has positive relation to patient satisfaction and patient safety outcomes improvement. The transformational, authentic, and ethical leadership models seem to be more useful in promoting, maintaining, and improving patient safety culture in health care facilities.  

scholarly journals Introduction to the Rule Book of Pancreatobiliary Endoscopy Certification

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 224-232
Author(s):  
Won Suk Park
Keyword(s):  
Patient Safety ◽  
Improve Patient Safety ◽  
Endoscopic Retrograde ◽  
Endoscopic Procedures ◽  
Certification System ◽  
Systematic Training ◽  
Level Of Difficulty ◽  
Improve Patient ◽  
Biliary Endoscopy

An endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) procedure requires the highest level of difficulty among endoscopic procedures and the complications related to the procedure is relatively high, and fatal. Training in ERCP requires the development of technical, cognitive, and integrative skills well beyond those needed for standard endoscopic procedures. Therefore, a system that certifies qualifications through objective and systematic training and examination is needed to improve patient safety and quality of medical services. This manuscript introduces a set of rules that contain all the necessary matters for the certification system of pancreatic and biliary endoscopy.

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