Safety culture in long-term care: a cross-sectional analysis of the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire in nursing and residential homes in the Netherlands
Conclusions
The findings in this study confirmed that the SAQ could also be used in the nursing and residential homes setting. However, stress recognition in nursing and residential homes setting does not seem to be one of the dimensions of the safety attitude construct. Furthermore, Dutch nursing and residential homes have significantly higher scores on most dimensions of the SAQ compared with US inpatient units and comparable scores to ICUs (Dutch and US) and ambulatory services. (Source: BMJ Quality and Safety)
Source: BMJ Quality and Safety - May 18, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Buljac-Samardzic, M., van Wijngaarden, J. D., Dekker-van Doorn, C. M. Tags: Original research Source Type: research
Linking social media and medical record data: a study of adults presenting to an academic, urban emergency department
Conclusions
Many patients are willing to share and link their social media data with EMR data. Sharing patients have several demographic and clinical differences compared with non-sharers. A database that merges social media with EMR data has the potential to provide insights about individuals’ health and health outcomes. (Source: BMJ Quality and Safety)
Source: BMJ Quality and Safety - May 18, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Padrez, K. A., Ungar, L., Schwartz, H. A., Smith, R. J., Hill, S., Antanavicius, T., Brown, D. M., Crutchley, P., Asch, D. A., Merchant, R. M. Tags: Original research Source Type: research
Measuring patient-perceived quality of care in US hospitals using Twitter
Conclusions
Tweets describing patient experiences in hospitals cover a wide range of patient care aspects and can be identified using automated approaches. These tweets represent a potentially untapped indicator of quality and may be valuable to patients, researchers, policy makers and hospital administrators. (Source: BMJ Quality and Safety)
Source: BMJ Quality and Safety - May 18, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Hawkins, J. B., Brownstein, J. S., Tuli, G., Runels, T., Broecker, K., Nsoesie, E. O., McIver, D. J., Rozenblum, R., Wright, A., Bourgeois, F. T., Greaves, F. Tags: Open access, Editor's choice Original research Source Type: research
Getting the improvement habit
Improving healthcare services can all too easily become synonymous with the use of certain in vogue tools for improving quality. Trigger tools, run charts and driver diagrams are just three examples of techniques used by frontline staff who are undertaking improvement work. Educators seeking to teach improvement are similarly faced with long lists of possible approaches and techniques with which to fill their course descriptions. As a consequence the temptation for improvement leaders and teachers is to include yet another technique in an already crowded curriculum, to add in more ‘stuff’. But what if focusing ...
Source: BMJ Quality and Safety - May 18, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Lucas, B. Tags: Open access Viewpoints Source Type: research
Fifteen years after To Err is Human: a success story to learn from
Preventable harm is a major cause of preventable death worldwide. In late 1999, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released To Err is Human,1 a report that riveted the world's attention to between 44 000 and 98 000 patient deaths annually in the USA from medical errors. Progress towards reducing these harms has proven difficult because healthcare lacks robust mechanisms to routinely measure the problem and estimates of the magnitude vary widely. It is hard to gauge safety when healthcare uses multiple different measures for the same harm and provides limited investment in measurement, implementation and applied scie...
Source: BMJ Quality and Safety - May 18, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Pronovost, P. J., Cleeman, J. I., Wright, D., Srinivasan, A. Tags: Viewpoints Source Type: research
