Patient Safety and Medication Errors

Purpose Delays, measurement and medical errors and variability often undermine the delivery of safe, effective patient care. However, it is possible to minimize them by applying six‐sigma. This methodology aims to focus on the root causes of healthcare problems, analyses them by flowcharts and fishbone diagrams and pr…

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BACKGROUND: The Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (HSOPS) is used to assess safety culture in many countries. Accordingly, the questionnaire has been translated into Turkish for the study of patient safety culture in Turkish hospitals. The aim of this study is threefold: to determine the validity and reliabili…

• HATİCE GÜRGEN ŞİMŞEK
• SÜHEYLA ÖZSOY

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the patient safety culture in primary healthcare units. DESIGN: A cross-sectional study, utilizing the Turkish version of the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture developed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and a demographic questionnaire. SETTING: Twelve primary healthcare…

• EMEL FİLİZ

Medical errors are a serious public health problem and the third-leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer. Every day, the health care professionals (HCPs) practice their skill and knowledge within excessively complex situations and meet unexpected patient outcomes. These unexpected complications and unint…

• IŞIL İREM BUDAKOĞLU
• ÖZLEM COŞKUN
• VİLDAN ÖZEKE

OBJECTIVE: To prospectively assess the construct and criterion validity of ClassIntra version 1.0, a newly developed classification for assessing intraoperative adverse events. DESIGN: International, multicentre cohort study. SETTING: 18 secondary and tertiary centres from 12 countries in Europe, Oceania, and North Am…

BACKGROUND: Previous before-and-after studies indicate that the use of safety checklists in surgery reduces complication rates in patients. METHODS: A systematic review of studies was undertaken using MEDLINE, CINAHL, Proquest, and the Cochrane Library to identify studies that evaluated the effects of checklist use in…

Patient safety concept has achieved more attention from healthcare organizations to improve the safety culture. This study aimed to investigate patient safety attitudes among doctors and nurses and explore associations between workload, adverse events, and experience with patient safety attitudes. The study used a des…

BACKGROUND: The Surgical Safety Checklist (SSC) is a patient safety tool shown to reduce mortality and to improve teamwork and adherence with perioperative safety practices. The results of the original pilot work were published 10 years ago. This study aimed to determine the contemporary prevalence and predictors of S…

• MUHAMMED SELİM BODUR

BACKGROUND: The Surgical Safety Checklist (SSC) is a patient safety tool shown to reduce mortality and to improve teamwork and adherence with perioperative safety practices. The results of the original pilot work were published 10 years ago. This study aimed to determine the contemporary prevalence and predictors of S…

• MEHMET ULUŞAHİN

The objective of this study was to compare the effectiveness of a virtual intravenous simulator with a plastic arm model in teaching intravenous catheter insertion skills to nursing students. We used a randomized controlled quasi-experimental trial design and recruited 65 students who were assigned to the experimental…

• AYTEN ZAYBAK
• ELİF GÜNAY İSMAİLOĞLU

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