Articles Tagged With: safety
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Study Shows Safety Culture Affects Hospital Quality
Hospitals usually focus on technical issues like surgeons’ skills and operating room equipment when seeking to improve surgery outcomes and overall quality. New research, however, is reinforcing the idea that a patient safety culture may be equally important in delivering high-quality patient care.
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Safety Culture Proven to Improve Quality
But how does a patient safety culture influence quality, and how do you know if you have instilled that culture throughout your organization?
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Minimize overrides of technology to improve patient safety
Patient safety could be improved by developing criteria for alerts that focus on opportunities for patient harm, while preventing alert fatigue and minimizing the need for overrides, according to recent research from the Pennsylvania Safety Authority in Harrisburg.
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Safety culture critical to better surgical results
To achieve better results for surgical patients, hospitals tend to focus on technical issues such as surgeons’ skills and operating room equipment. However, a non-technical factor, the so-called “safety culture,” might be equally important in delivering high-quality patient care, a team of investigators report in a study published online in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons in advance of print publication.
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Frontline safety issues are not always heard by hospital and health system leaders
When hospital leaders conduct safety rounds at The Johns Hopkins Hospital and Health System in Baltimore, MD, they don’t rely on just friendly chat and a checklist of policies and procedures.
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Some Professions Are More Dangerous Than Others: HIV Transmission in the Adult Film Industry
Routine HIV testing failed to prevent HIV transmission, with an attack rate of 29% in male adult film performers.
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Hospital Culture Must Be Measured, Not Just Improved
Hospitals strive to have the right culture, particularly when it comes to patient safety, but measuring improvement can be challenging. It’s not enough to strive for a health culture, says one expert. You also have to know if you’re getting any closer to your goal.
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Safety checklist boosts perceived periop safety
An initiative to implement surgical safety checklists at 13 South Carolina hospitals was linked with improved staff perceptions of mutual respect, clinical leadership, assertiveness on behalf of safety, team coordination and communication, safe practice, and perceived checklist outcomes, according to a just-published study.
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Readmissions are focus of Joint Commission resources
The Joint Commission has developed two new resources to help healthcare providers in their efforts to reduce patient readmissions and improve the discharge process. The resources are a new Speak Up campaign for providers and organizations to educate patients, including an infographic, animated video, and podcast; and a Quick Safety newsletter for healthcare professionals that includes suggested actions for improving transitions.
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NPSF says patient safety still a serious concern
Fifteen years after the Institute of Medicine brought public attention to the issue of medical errors and adverse events, patient safety concerns remain a serious public health issue that must be tackled with a more pervasive response, according to a report released recently by the National Patient Safety Foundation in Boston.