Patient safety – perspectives on evidence, information, and knowledge transfer

Patient safety ¿ perspectives on evidence, information, and knowledge transfer

Nurses’ Perspectives on Factors Affecting Patient Safety: A Qualitative Study

Patient safety is a global concern that involves all healthcare members, so that achieving a high level safe care is responsibility of all healthcare services, particularly nurses. This qualitative study aimed to describe nurses’ perspectives on factors affecting patient safety. We recruited 32 nurses working in teaching hospitals by purposeful sampling method. Data were collected by semi-struc...

Understanding Dimensioning of Knowledge Transfer Perspectives

Most current conceptualisation of knowledge transfer emerges from the premise of occidental heritage. This paper examines the dialectical procedure, underpinning the unification of knowledge as an entity, and discusses dimensions of knowledge and knowledge transfer from the practitioner’s perspective. The study asks why, if knowledge is vital for business success and competitive advantage, the ...

Perspectives on diagnostic failure and patient safety.

T he Institute of Medicine (IOM) report To Err Is Human (Kohn et al. 1999), published at the turn of the century, signalled the beginning of the modern era of patient safety. Although a variety of good work followed, in hindsight what appears to have been missing at the beginning was sufficient pause to ask which of the many possible directions should be taken to achieve the most value for effo...

Transferring knowledge on patient safety.