Safety Culture in Health care

2011 ◽  
pp. 133-162
Author(s):  
Kenji Itoh ◽  
Henning Boje ◽  
Marlene Madsen
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Safety Culture

Safety culture in health care teams: A narrative review of the literature

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (5) ◽  
pp. 871-883 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roisin O’Donovan ◽  
Marie Ward ◽  
Aoife De Brún ◽  
Eilish McAuliffe
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Safety Culture ◽  
Narrative Review ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Health Care Teams

scholarly journals Patient safety and safety culture in primary health care: a systematic review

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muna Habib AL. Lawati ◽  
Sarah Dennis ◽  
Stephanie D. Short ◽  
Nadia Noor Abdulhadi
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Patient Safety ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Safety Culture ◽  
Primary Health

Patient Safety and Medical Errors

2017 ◽  
pp. 61-90
Author(s):  
Vasiliki Kapaki ◽  
Kyriakos Souliotis
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Patient Safety ◽  
Healthcare System ◽  
Safety Culture ◽  
Medical Errors ◽  
Care Staff ◽  
Health Care Staff ◽  
Culture And Climate

Patient Safety is considered to be the most important parameter of quality that every contemporary healthcare system should be aiming at. The terms “Patient Safety” and “Medical Errors” are directly linked to the “Safety Culture and Climate” in every organization. It is widely accepted that medical errors constitute an index of insufficient safety and are defined as any unintentional event that diminishes or could diminish the level of patient safety. This chapter indicates that a beneficial safety culture is essential to enhance and assure patient safety. Furthermore, health care staff with a positive safety culture is more probable to learn openly and successfully from errors and injuries.

Traditional Lectures Actually Improve the Body of Knowledge, Skills, and Attitudes of Health Care Professional for Health Incident Reporting System

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
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Patient Safety ◽  
Health Care Professional ◽  
Safety Culture ◽  
Reporting System ◽  
Patient Safety Culture ◽  
Incident Reporting ◽  
Event Reporting ◽  
Incident Reporting System ◽  
Traditional Lectures

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.

scholarly journals Vaccination of Health Care Workers for Influenza: Promote Safety Culture, Not Coercion

2010 ◽  
Vol 101 (S1) ◽  
pp. S41-S45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annalee Yassi ◽  
Karen Lockhart ◽  
Jane A. Buxton ◽  
Isobel McDonald
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Safety Culture ◽  
Health Care Workers ◽  
Care Workers

scholarly journals Assessment of patient safety culture in primary health care in Muscat, Oman: a questionnaire -based survey

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muna Habib AL Lawati ◽  
Stephanie D. Short ◽  
Nadia Noor Abdulhadi ◽  
Sathiya Murthi Panchatcharam ◽  
Sarah Dennis
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Patient Safety ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Safety Culture ◽  
Patient Safety Culture ◽  
Primary Health

scholarly journals 45 Helping the Helpers: Peer Critical Incident Stress Management for NICU Health Care Providers to Improve Resilience, Burnout and Patient Safety

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (Supplement_2) ◽  
pp. e19-e19
Author(s):  
Natasha Lifeso ◽  
Matthew Hicks ◽  
Chloe Joynt
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Safety Culture ◽  
Critical Incident ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Post Intervention ◽  
Critical Incident Stress Management ◽  
Critical Incident Stress ◽  
Patient Load ◽  
Stress Recognition

Abstract Introduction/Background Health care providers in neonatal intensive care units (NICU) experience critical or distressing events that can overwhelm their usual coping skills and lead to significant stress. Ineffective support for health care providers dealing with critical incidents can lead to poor unit resilience, staff burnout and compromised patient care behaviours. A formalized peer program and process to address critical workplace incidents and support care providers, “Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM)” is used in many first responder professions. While there is growing interest in implementing peer CISM teams in critical care units, there is a lack of research describing the impact of CISM in NICU. Objectives This study examined the effect of implementing a multidisciplinary NICU health care provider peer CISM team on resilience, burnout, and team/safety culture in a tertiary NICU. Design/Methods Multidisciplinary team members were peer selected and formally CISM trained. Change management strategies were employed to introduce CISM to the NICU. All health care providers were invited to complete an anonymous online or paper survey before and 1 year after NICU CISM team implementation. The survey contained validated measures of resilience, burnout, and team/safety culture that were analyzed pre and post intervention. Results The response rate pre-intervention was 66% (114/172 staff) and 32% post (60/186 staff). Stress recognition significantly improved as fewer staff reported being less effective at work when feeling stressed post incident (74% vs 61%, pre and post CISM respectively, p&lt;0.05) (Table 1). Fewer staff reported feeling burned out from their work (41% vs 31%, p=0.4), trending towards improved resilience (Table 1). Communication in the NICU significantly improved as staff indicated debriefing methods met their needs (38% vs 57%, p&lt;0.05) and felt comfortable speaking up about safety concerns (66% vs 78%) (Table 1). Post-intervention, despite feelings of increased workload indicated by a significant decrease in agreement that “NICU staff levels were sufficient for patient load” (54% vs 33%, p&lt;0.001), a majority of staff reported a supportive environment in the NICU (59% vs 77%, p=0.08) (Table 1). Work culture significantly improved as staff felt rewarded and recognized for improving quality (13% vs 31%, p&lt;0.05) (Table 1). Conclusion Implementation of a peer CISM team led to improved NICU care provider resilience, stress recognition, and team culture, all of which can mitigate the effects of increased patient load. Findings from this research and knowledge gained from the CISM implementation process should be shared with other health care environments.

scholarly journals Patient safety culture from the perspective of workers and primary health care teams

2019 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daiane Cortêz Raimondi ◽  
Suelen Cristina Zandonadi Bernal ◽  
Laura Misue Matsuda
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Patient Safety ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Oral Health ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Safety Culture ◽  
Family Health ◽  
Patient Safety Culture ◽  
Health Care Teams ◽  
Primary Health

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.

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