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Awareness and implementation of nine World Health Organization's patient safe...
Background The pressing need to reduce burgeoning poor safety measures affecting millions worldwide has alerted World Health Assembly to set-up mechanisms to increase patient... -
Functionality of hospital information systems: results from a survey of quali...
Background: We aimed to determine availability of core Hospital Information Systems (HIS) functions implemented in Turkish hospitals and the perceived importance of these... -
Oncology nurses' beliefs and attitudes towards the double-check of chemothera...
Background Double-checking medications is a widely used strategy to enhance safe medication administration in oncology, but there is little evidence to support its... -
Integrating teamwork, clinician occupational well-being and patient safety – ...
Background There is growing evidence that teamwork in hospitals is related to both patient outcomes and clinician occupational well-being. Furthermore, clinician well-being is... -
Tailoring an educational program on the AHRQ Patient Safety Indicators to mee...
Background Given that patient safety measures are increasingly used for public reporting and pay-for performance, it is important for stakeholders to understand how to use these... -
Evaluation of a guided continuous quality improvement program in community ph...
Background The importance of creating and sustaining a strong culture of patient safety has been recognized as a critical component of safe medication use. This study aims to... -
A review of national policies and strategies to improve quality of health car...
Background Improving quality of care and patient safety practices can strengthen health care delivery systems, improve health sector performance, and accelerate attainment of... -
Experiences from ten years of incident reporting in health care: a qualitativ...
Background Incident reporting (IR) in health care has been advocated as a means to improve patient safety. The purpose of IR is to identify safety hazards and develop...
