Pilot Testing a Patient Safety Display in the Hospital Setting

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Patient Safety ◽  
Hospital Setting ◽  
Pilot Testing

scholarly journals Exploring patient safety outcomes for people with learning disabilities in acute hospital settings: a scoping review

BMJ Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. e047102
Author(s):  
Gemma Louch ◽  
Abigail Albutt ◽  
Joanna Harlow-Trigg ◽  
Sally Moore ◽  
Kate Smyth ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Learning Disabilities ◽  
Patient Safety ◽  
Adverse Events ◽  
Grey Literature ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Hospital Setting ◽  
Eligibility Criteria ◽  
Infant Outcomes ◽  
Safety Outcomes

ObjectivesTo produce a narrative synthesis of published academic and grey literature focusing on patient safety outcomes for people with learning disabilities in an acute hospital setting.DesignScoping review with narrative synthesis.MethodsThe review followed the six stages of the Arksey and O’Malley framework. We searched four research databases from January 2000 to March 2021, in addition to handsearching and backwards searching using terms relating to our eligibility criteria—patient safety and adverse events, learning disability and hospital setting. Following stakeholder input, we searched grey literature databases and specific websites of known organisations until March 2020. Potentially relevant articles and grey literature materials were screened against the eligibility criteria. Findings were extracted and collated in data charting forms.Results45 academic articles and 33 grey literature materials were included, and we organised the findings around six concepts: (1) adverse events, patient safety and quality of care; (2) maternal and infant outcomes; (3) postoperative outcomes; (4) role of family and carers; (5) understanding needs in hospital and (6) supporting initiatives, recommendations and good practice examples. The findings suggest inequalities and inequities for a range of specific patient safety outcomes including adverse events, quality of care, maternal and infant outcomes and postoperative outcomes, in addition to potential protective factors, such as the roles of family and carers and the extent to which health professionals are able to understand the needs of people with learning disabilities.ConclusionPeople with learning disabilities appear to experience poorer patient safety outcomes in hospital. The involvement of family and carers, and understanding and effectively meeting the needs of people with learning disabilities may play a protective role. Promising interventions and examples of good practice exist, however many of these have not been implemented consistently and warrant further robust evaluation.

Roadmap to an effective quality improvement and patient safety program implementation in a rural hospital setting

Healthcare ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 277-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
Willy Ingabire ◽  
Petera M. Reine ◽  
Bethany L. Hedt-Gauthier ◽  
Lisa R. Hirschhorn ◽  
Catherine M. Kirk ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Patient Safety ◽  
Quality Improvement ◽  
Program Implementation ◽  
Hospital Setting ◽  
Rural Hospital ◽  
Safety Program

Enhancing a culture of patient safety in an oncologic hospital setting.

2016 ◽  
Vol 34 (7_suppl) ◽  
pp. 135-135
Author(s):  
Nicole Worthington ◽  
Shannon Bristow
Keyword(s):  
Patient Safety ◽  
Safety Culture ◽  
Medical Center ◽  
Hospital Setting ◽  
Patient Safety Culture ◽  
Healthcare Research ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
Regional Medical Center ◽  
A Priority

135 Background: Patient safety is a priority for all hospitals and staff members. With approx. 1:10 hospitalized patients experiencing an adverse event1, healthcare lags behind other industries with regards to safety. Oncology patients have an increased risk of adverse events due to an immunocompromised status, coupled with complex treatments. Cancer Treatment Centers of America at Eastern Regional Medical Center (ERMC) recognized the need to heighten patient safety while maintaining a positive patient experience. Methods: ERMC participates in the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture to assess employee’s perception of the organization’s patient safety, conducted every 18-24 months. The most recent survey was conducted between May 11 - June 1, 2015. Interventions to enhance safety culture from 2013 to 2015 survey results included: daily safety check-ins for all hospital departments for both day and night shifts; sharing safety stories before routine meetings; leadership rounding; and enhanced transparency of safety events that occurred throughout the hospital. Routine in-servicing was also completed to educate staff members on reportable safety events for Pennsylvania and foster ongoing discussions about patient safety. Results: Survey response rate experienced a 236% increase from 2013 to 2015 (218 to 628 responses respectively). Of the 12 patient safety composites, 11 showed an increase in scores from 2013 to 2015, the outlier being “overall perceptions of patient safety” composite score which dropped by two percentage points. Furthermore, ERMC was above the national benchmark in all 12 patient safety composite categories for the 2015 survey. Conclusions: The ERMC staff considers safety a priority, as evidenced by the increase in AHRQ survey scores from 2013 to 2015. Perceptions of safety throughout the system have increased with the initiation of several safety projects. Based on raw comments from the AHRQ culture of safety survey, more work is needed to involve non-clinical staff in hospital safety. Moving forward, ERMC will investigate innovative solutions to involve all staff, clinical and non-clinical alike, to be engaged in patient safety.

Piloting the use of 2D barcode and patient safety-software in an Australian tertiary hospital setting

Vox Sanguinis ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 105 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Miller ◽  
C. Akers ◽  
G. Magrin ◽  
S. Whitehead ◽  
A. K. Davis
Keyword(s):  
Patient Safety ◽  
Hospital Setting ◽  
Tertiary Hospital ◽  
2D Barcode

scholarly journals THE IMPACT OF BARCODE MEDICATION ADMINISTRATION ON PATIENT SAFETY: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Seham Sahal Aloufi
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Patient Safety ◽  
Medication Error ◽  
Medication Errors ◽  
Improve Patient Safety ◽  
Hospital Setting ◽  
Medication Administration ◽  
Bar Code ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Improve Patient

Patient safety is considered as an essential feature of healthcare system. Many trials have been conducted in order to find ways to improve patient safety, and many reports indicate that medication errors pose a threat to patient safety. Thus, some studies have investigated the impact of bar code medication administration (BCMA) system on medication error reduction during the medication administration procedure. This systematic review (SR) reports the impact of BCMA system on reducing medication errors to improve patient safety; it also compares traditional medication administration with the BCMA system. The review concentrates on the effectiveness of BCMA technology on medication administration errors, and on the accuracy of medication administration. This review also focused on different designs of quantitative studies, as they are more effective at investigating the impact of the intervention than qualitative studies. The findings from this systematic review show various results depending on the nature of the hospital setting. Most of the studies agree that the BCMA system enhances compliance with the 'five rights’' requirement (right drug, right patient, right dose, right time and right route) of medication administration. In addition, BCMA technology identified medication error types that could not be identified with the traditional approach which is applying the 'five rights' of medication administration. The findings of this systematic review also confirm the impact of BCMA system in reducing medication error, preventing adverse events and increasing the accuracy of the medication administration rate. However, BCMA technology did not consistently reduce the overall errors of medication administration. Keyword: Patient Safety, Impact, BCMA, eMAR

scholarly journals Best Paper Selection

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (01) ◽  
pp. 081-082
Keyword(s):  
Patient Safety ◽  
Decision Support ◽  
Medication Reconciliation ◽  
Hospital Setting ◽  
Clinical Decision ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Design Methods ◽  
User Centered Design ◽  
Contextual Design ◽  
Care Partners

Couture B, Lilley E, Chang F, DeBord Smith A, Cleveland J, Ergai A, Katsulis Z, Benneyan J, Gershanik E, Bates DW, Collins SA. Applying user-centered design methods to the development of an mHealth application for use in the hospital setting by patients and care partners. Appl Clin Inform 2018 Apr;9(2):302-12 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5943079/ Miller A, Koola JD, Matheny ME, Ducom JH, Slagle JM, Groessl EJ, Minter FF, Garvin JH, Weinger MB, Ho SB. Application of contextual design methods to inform targeted clinical decision support interventions in sub-specialty care environments. Int J Med Inform 2018 Sep;117:55-65 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S138650561830580X?via%3Dihub Tamblyn R, Winslade N, Lee TC, Motulsky A, Meguerditchian A, Bustillo M, Elsayed S, Buckeridge DL, Couture I, Qian CJ, Moraga T, Huang A. Improving patient safety and efficiency of medication reconciliation through the development and adoption of a computerassisted tool with automated electronic integration of population-based community drug data: the RightRx project. J Am Med Inform Assoc 2018 May 1;25(5):482-95 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6018649/ Tscholl DW, Handschin L, Neubauer P, Weiss M, Seifert B, Spahn DR, Noethiger CB. Using an animated patient avatar to improve perception of vital sign information by anaesthesia professionals. Br J Anaesth 2018 Sep;121(3):662-71 https://bjanaesthesia.org/article/S0007-0912(18)30332-5/fulltext

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