scholarly journals Patient Safety Culture in Norwegian Home Health Care – a study protocol

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (02) ◽  
pp. 154-164
Author(s):  
Silje Tollefsen ◽  
Oddvar Førland ◽  
Ellen C. Tveter Deilkås ◽  
Valborg Baste ◽  
Gunnar Tschudi Bondevik
2020 ◽  
pp. 001857872091855
Author(s):  
Marcus Vinicius de Souza Joao Luiz ◽  
Fabiana Rossi Varallo ◽  
Celsa Raquel Villaverde Melgarejo ◽  
Tales Rubens de Nadai ◽  
Patricia de Carvalho Mastroianni

Introduction: A solid patient safety culture lies at the core of an effective event reporting system in a health care setting requiring a professional commitment for event reporting identification. Therefore, health care settings should provide strategies in which continuous health care education comes up as a good alternative. Traditional lectures are usually more convenient in terms of costs, and they allow us to disseminate data, information, and knowledge through a large number of people in the same room. Taking in consideration the tight money budgets in Brazil and other countries, it is relevant to investigate the impact of traditional lectures on the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to incident reporting system and patient safety culture. Objective: The study aim was to assess the traditional lecture impact on the improvement of health care professional competency dimensions (knowledge, skills, and attitudes) and on the number of health care incident reports for better patient safety culture. Participants and Methods: An open-label, nonrandomized trial was conducted in ninety-nine health care professionals who were assessed in terms of their competencies (knowledge, skills, and attitudes) related to the health incident reporting system, before and after education intervention (traditional lectures given over 3 months). Results: All dimensions of professional competencies were improved after traditional lectures ( P < .05, 95% confidence interval). Conclusions: traditional lectures are helpful strategy for the improvement of the competencies for health care incident reporting system and patient safety.


2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muna Habib AL Lawati ◽  
Stephanie D. Short ◽  
Nadia Noor Abdulhadi ◽  
Sathiya Murthi Panchatcharam ◽  
Sarah Dennis

2015 ◽  
Vol 71 (10) ◽  
pp. 2413-2425 ◽  
Author(s):  
Minna Ylönen ◽  
Jaakko Viljamaa ◽  
Hannu Isoaho ◽  
Kristiina Junttila ◽  
Helena Leino-Kilpi ◽  
...  

2019 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daiane Cortêz Raimondi ◽  
Suelen Cristina Zandonadi Bernal ◽  
Laura Misue Matsuda

OBJECTIVE: Analyze if the patient safety culture among professionals in the primary health care differs among health care teams. METHODS: Cross-sectional and quantitative study conducted in April and May 2017, in a city in Southern Brazil. A total of 144 professionals who responded to the questionnaire “Survey on Patient Safety Culture in Primary Health Care” participated in the study. Data were analyzed in the Statistical Analysis Software program and expressed in percentage of positive responses. The ethical principles established for research with human beings were applied. RESULTS: Patient safety culture is positive among 50.81% of the professionals, and the dimensions “your health service” (63.39%) and “patient safety and quality” (61.22%) obtained the highest average of positive responses. Significant differences were found between the family health and oral health teams (α = 0.05 and p < 0.05), in the dimensions “patient safety” (p = 0.0274) and “work at the health service” (p = 0.0058). CONCLUSIONS: We concluded that, although close to the average, patient safety culture among professionals in the Primary Health Care is positive and that there are differences in safety culture between family health and oral health teams in comparison with the primary health care teams.


2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 257-262
Author(s):  
Dennis Tsilimingras ◽  
Liying Zhang ◽  
Askar Chukmaitov

Adverse events that occur in urban and rural adults during the posthospitalization period have become a major public health concern. However, postdischarge adverse events for patients receiving home health care have been understudied. The objective of this study was to identify the prevalence and risk factors associated with postdischarge adverse events for patients who received home health care services. We analyzed data from a prospective cohort study that was conducted among patients who were hospitalized in the Tallahassee Memorial Hospital from December 2011 to October 2012. Telephone interviews were conducted by trained nurses who contacted patients within 4 weeks after discharge. Physicians reviewed cases with possible adverse events that were triaged by the nurses. The adverse events that were identified were categorized as preventable, ameliorable, and nonpreventable/nonameliorable. Nearly 39% of 85 patients who received home health care experienced postdischarge adverse events that were predominantly preventable or ameliorable. The associated risk factors were living alone (odds ratio [OR] = 7.860, p = .020), insured by Medicare or Medicaid (OR = 6.402, p = .048), type 2 diabetes mellitus (OR = 6.323, p = .004), pneumonia (OR = 5.504, p = .004), and other infections (OR = 4.618, p = .031). This study was able to identify that nearly one in every two patients who received home health care after hospital discharge experienced an adverse event. Patient safety research needs to focus in the home by developing specific interventions to avert adverse events and improve patient safety during the delivery of home health care services.


2015 ◽  
Vol 28 (6) ◽  
pp. 595-610 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea C. Bishop ◽  
Brianna R. Cregan

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to determine what patient and family stories can tell us about patient safety culture within health care organizations and how patients experience patient safety culture. Design/methodology/approach – A total of 11 patient and family stories of adverse event experiences were examined in September 2013 using publicly available videos on the Canadian Patient Safety Insitute web site. Videos were transcribed verbatim and collated as one complete data set. Thematic analysis was used to perform qualitative inquiry. All qualitative analysis was done using NVivo 10 software. Findings – A total of three themes were identified: first, Being Passed Around; second, Not Having the Conversation; and third, the Person Behind the Patient. Results from this research also suggest that while health care organizations and providers might expect patients to play a larger role in managing their health, there may be underlying reasons as to why patients are not doing so. Practical implications – The findings indicate that patient experiences and narratives are useful sources of information to better understand organizational safety culture and patient experiences of safety while hospitalized. Greater inclusion and analysis of patient safety narratives is important in understanding the needs of patients and how patient safety culture interventions can be improved to ensure translation of patient safety strategies at the frontlines of care. Originality/value – Greater acknowledgement of the patient and family experience provides organizations with an integral perspective to assist in defining and addressing deficiencies within their patient safety culture and to identify opportunities for improvement.


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