background: the main objective of nursing is to provide comprehensive nursing care that is appropriate to patients’ needs. however, the incidence of missed nursing care compromises the provision of comprehensive and safe care and threatens patients’ lives. thus, this in-depth qualitative study aimed to explore nurses’ experiences of missed care and factors affecting it. the aim of this study wa...

Patient safety issues in Saudi Arabia have received increasing attention. Pressures to improve patient safety within academic healthcare settings are gaining momentum daily. Health care organization providers and policy makers continually strive to promote patient safety culture. The purpose of this study was to examine the nurses’ attitude toward patient safety culture in academic ambulatory h...

BACKGROUND In China, increasing attention has been devoted to the patient safety culture within health administrative departments and healthcare organizations. However, no official version of a patient safety culture assessment tool has been published or is widely used, and little is known about the status of the safety culture in Chinese hospitals. The aims of this study were to examine the re...

BACKGROUND When improving patient safety a positive safety culture is key. As little is known about improving patient safety culture in primary care, this study examined whether administering a culture questionnaire with or without a complementary workshop could be used as an intervention for improving safety culture. AIM To gain insight into how two interventions affected patient safety cult...

in the healthcare context, whistleblowing has come to the fore of political, professional and public attention in the wake of major service scandals and mounting evidence of the routine threats to safety that patients face in their care. this paper offers a commentary and wider contextualisation of mannion and davies, ‘cultures of silence and cultures of voice: the role of whistleblowing in hea...

medication errors (mes) are among the most prevalent health errors threatening patients’ safety and are regarded as an index for determining patients’ well-being in hospitals. the purpose of this study was to explore the me reporting rate and causes of underreporting among the nursing students in the city of kerman. in this cross-sectional study, 90 nursing students in the seventh and eighth se...

introduction radiation protection is an important safety issue for radiographers and patients. the aim of this study was to assess the observance of radiation protection regulations in radiology departments of kermanshah university of medical sciences, kermanshah, iran. materials and methods in total, 48 radiographers and 8 radiography rooms were evaluated in three hospitals of kermanshah, iran...