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Showing 1 to 20 of 447 for “"patient safety"”.
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EXPLORING PATIENT SAFETY ISSUES IN MASSAGE THERAPY AND UNDERSTANDING PATIENT SAFETY INCIDENTS (ADVERSE EVENTS)
… systems in Canada, a dearth of information on patient safety persists. The views of massage therapy (MT) experts about patient safety is unknown while classification of adverse events (AEs) is not standardized. The objectives of this study are: 1) To explore MT regulators’ views on patient …
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Bedside Technology Improves Patient Safety
… Much new technology is available to support patient safety in the hospital including bar scanning identification methods for medications and patients, electronic medical records, etc. However, when the technology is not properly utilized it may increase the risk to the patient rather than …
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Increasing Patient Safety During Medication Administration
… of the crucial medical errors that compromises patient safety in hospitals each day. Direct observations were conducted to assess medication administration (MA) accuracy and practices in order to determine the root cause(s) of errors at a community-based, non-profit hospital. Failure to scan …
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Improving Patient Safety Through Accurate Medication Reconciliation
… in our microsystem. As an preop/postop outpatient unit, we see an average of 50 patients daily and perform medication reconciliations regularly. The problem is our nurses perform this task inconsistently and often incomplete, leading us to potential medication errors. During my CNL project, …
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Improving patient safety by decreasing restraint use
<p>Restraints are among the top 15 most frequently reported sentinel events (Cosper et al., 2013). An improvement project was undertaken to reduce restraint use on a medical/surgical acute care unit within a 200 bed not-for-profit teaching hospital. The project aimed to reduce physical restraint …
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Leader-Member Relationships and Patient Safety Culture
Patient safety culture has been a national objective for years. Many different interventions have been explored in hopes of improvement, but reported statistics suggest that this issue has yet to be solved. The purpose of this study is to examine relationships between nurse leaders and their …
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Patient safety and Errors in Veterinary Anesthesia
… in which medical errors can lead to significant patient harm. The aim of this thesis was to identify factors contributing to errors in veterinary anesthesia, evaluate the effectiveness of a pre-induction checklist in reducing omission errors, and develop a quality improvement initiative. Four …
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Promoting Patient Safety by Implementing Bedside Shift Report
<p><strong> ABSTRACT</strong></p> <p>Patient safety is a very broad and general term used to ensure that all aspects of patient care, from medical and nursing services to social and spiritual, are provided with the best interest of the patient. The aim statement for the project is improving patient …
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Improving Patient Safety: Reducing Medication Errors in the Microsystem
… for pre-administration assessments such as patient’s vitals, updating policies and procedures in relation to medication administration, implementing super users and providing education for electronic medication administration record (EMAR) and computerized physician order entry (CPOE) use. …
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Contemporary Patient Safety and the Challenges for New Zealand
… for staff working to reduce harm and implement safety improvement in New Zealand (NZ) hospitals. Their views are contextualised in four stages. First, medical harm is outlined as a persistent and expensive threat to public health. While new practices make decisive action possible, implementation …
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Understanding and Changing the Patient Safety Culture in Canadian Hospitals
Patient safety experts identify changes in culture as critical to creating safer care (Flin, 2007; Leape, 1994; Reason, 1997; Vincent, Taylor-Adams & Stanhope, 1998). Yet there is limited understanding of how to best study, evaluate and make changes to patient safety culture. The literature on …
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Patient safety culture in Irish healthcare: a mixed-methods investigation
… a leading cause of preventable harm worldwide. Patient safety culture has been described as the way in which members of a healthcare organisation think about and prioritise safety. The patient safety culture in a healthcare organisation can be affected by numerous factors including staff …
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How to enhance communication among healthcare providers and improve patient safety
… Healthcare System (AHS)[1], which has made patient safety its organizational strategic priority (AHS, 2018). This Organizational Improvement Plan (OIP) seeks to improve communication and positive change among healthcare providers by maximizing the use of error prevention tools to improve …
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Patient Safety Services: Reducing Resident Falls in California’s Senior Living Homes
<p>Older adults residing in California assisted living facilities (ALF) have an increased risk for falls, which have resulted in higher fall-related healthcare costs and demand for quality end-of-life (EOL) care services. California fall interventions are in a state of infancy to reduce the number …
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Patient Safety Culture and Management Activities Perceived by Geriatric Hospital Nurses
… 환자안전문화는 AHRQ(2004)에서 개발한 Hospital survey on patient safety culture(HSOPSC) 설문지를 김정은(2004)이 한글로 번안하여 사용한 44문항을 사용하였고, 환자안전관리 활동은 이금옥(2009)이 개발한 도구를 이유정(2011)이 수정 보완한 36문항을 사용하였다. 수집된 자료는 SPSS window 18.0 프로그램을 이용하여 t-test, one-way ANOVA, Scheffe의 사후검정, Pearson’s correlation coefficient로 사용하여 …
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A systems approach to improving patient safety through medical device purchasing
… implementers of healthcare services to approach patient safety from a systems perspective, acknowledging that medical device errors are not only directly related to device design, but to the design of the healthcare delivery service system in which the device operates. Little evidence exists of …
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Management of organisational crises and patient safety: towards a more inclusive approach
… the ‘latent conditions’ which underlie adverse patient safety incidents in healthcare organisations. In so doing, this thesis will move the debate concerning both the management of smouldering crises and patient safety in healthcare The dominant approach in crisis management theory has been to …
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"Code Purple": Improving Pediatric Patient Safety through Education of the Frontline Staff
… abduction prevention initiative include improved safety, peace of mind for parents and ongoing good care delivered by the staff. Outcomes will be measured using data from the weekly audits.</p>
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Improving Patient Safety by Calculating the QT Correction in Critical Care Patients
… and other lethal ventricular arrhythmias. 52% or patients in critical care units have prolonged QTc and 69% or critical care patients have risks of developing QTc. Many commonly administered medications in the critical care unit are known to prolong QTc yet a microsystem assessment and a gap …
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Improv to Improve Interprofessional Communication, Team Building, Patient Safety, and Patient Satisfaction
… healthcare communication gap and improve patient safety and satisfaction.</p>
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