background: if you want to start a long journey towards patient safety, you should create a good culture of patient safety among employees alongside structural interventions. the first step in doing so is the assessment of current culture in the organization using different tools. one of the most commonly used instruments of measuring patient safety culture is hospital survey of patient safety ...

Ensuring patient safety is essential for better heath care. Safety have gripped public attention ever since the release of the report "To Err is Human". To find strategies of promotion of patient safety has stimulated models that improve knowledge of adverse events. Adverse drug events are the most common cause of injury to hospitalized patients and are often preventable. Many tactics are avail...

Birbeck, G. L., Zingmond, D. S., Cui, X., & Vickrey, B. G. (2006). Multispecialty stroke services in california hospitals are associated with reduced mortality. Neurology, 66(10), 1527-1527-1532. This study sought to evaluate whether a multispecialty service, a distinct hospital ward, protocols, or a specialist are associated with reduced mortality among patients with stroke. The study conclude...

Dirk M. Elston, MD, James S. Taylor, MD, Brett Coldiron, MD, Antoinette F. Hood, MD, Sandra I. Read, MD, Jack S. Resneck, Jr, MD, Robert S. Kirsner, MD, PhD, John C. Maize, Sr, MD, Sabra Sullivan, MD, PhD, John Laskas, Jr, MD, and C. William Hanke, MD Danville and Glen Mills, Pennsylvania; Cleveland and Cincinnati, Ohio; Detroit, Michigan; Norfolk, Virginia; Washington, DC; San Francisco, Calif...

Introduction: Patient Safety in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit is to reduce as little possible the risk of causing harmful acts course care. Objective: This study aimed search together with scientific literature which factors compromise patient safety neonatal care unit. Methods: For this an integrative review was performed on Pubmed and Scielo platforms, using combination descriptors “Patient ...

In their recent editorial Mannion and Braithwaite provide an insightful critique of traditional patient safety improvement efforts, and offer a powerful alternative vision based on Safety-II thinking that has the potential to radically transform the way we approach patient safety. In this commentary, I explore how the Safety-II perspective points to new directions for organisational learning in...