Prioritizing Staff Safety

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Patient safety: staff safety--hand in hand?

A Model-based Approach to Prioritizing Medical Safety Practices

This report shows how a model of skilled human performance can be used to evaluate safety practices aimed at reducing medical error when randomized trials evidence regarding the effectiveness of such practices is not available. In the modeling approach, safety practices are described by a collection of variables, and the impact of these practices is estimated in terms of the effect of changes i...

Prioritizing Critical Success Factors Influencing Safety, Using TOPSIS

Undoubtedly, one of the most important subjects in organizations is preserving personnel healthy and preventing accident in work environment. Therefore, identification of influential factors on safety as a critical issue has always been given significant consideration. These methods can help managers to find some good ways to improve the employees' work condition. In this paper, the Critical Su...

Safety-net providers and preparation for health reform: staff down, staff up, staff differently.

A LTHOUGH THE PATIENT PROTECTION AND Affordable Care Act (ACA) was passed in 2010, the major expansion of health insurance promulgated by the bill does not occur until 2014. At that time an estimated 23 million uninsured Americans with incomes below 133% of the federal poverty level will gain Medicaid. An additional 17 million persons will be eligible for subsidized coverage under a health insu...