INTRODUCTION A language barrier has been shown to be a threat for quality of hospital care. International studies highlighted a lack of adequate noticing, reporting, and bridging of a language barrier. However, studies on the link between language proficiency and patient safety are scarce, especially in Europe. The present study investigates patient safety risks due to language barriers during ...

Aim: To document 1) that patient safety culture scores vary not only by individual responder, but also, and to a large degree, by ward and department, and 2) that more of the variation is across wards than across departments. Setting: 500-bed Norwegian university hospital September-December 2006. Methods: Data collected from 1400 staff by (the Norwegian version of) the generic version of the Sa...

Florence Ader1 Anne-Lise Bienvenu2 Blandine rammaert3 Saad Nseir4 1Service des Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales; 2Service de Parasitologie et Mycologie Médicale, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Hôpital de La Croixrousse, Lyon, France; 3Service des Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales, Université Paris Descartes, Hôpital Necker enfants Malades, Centre d’infectiologie...

1. We have retrospectively analysed data collected by a local adverse drug reactions reporting scheme in an acute hospital medical setting and have determined the numbers and types of reactions that would have merited notification as yellow card reports according to the guidelines of the Committee on Safety of Medicines. 2. The data related to 20,695 consecutive acute general medical admissions...

BACKGROUND Routine hospital statistics for England appear to overestimate use of children's wards and include numbers of well newborn babies staying with their mothers after delivery ("well babies"). AIM To review trends in use of children's wards excluding data on newborn babies. METHODS We reviewed routine, published, and age stratified data requested from the Department of Health to iden...

Demographic Trends NEARLY half the patients admitted to general wards of hospitals today are over the age of 60 (Lancet, I963); the average age of patients admitted to Geriatric Units varies between 75 and 80, and in the Sunderland Geriatric Unit over onethird of all the admissions are over 80 years. The number of operations performed on patients of 60 and over (excluding orthopaedic and urolog...

Residential mobility among those with mental disorders is consistently associated with hospital admission. We studied 4485 psychiatric admissions in South London, aiming to describe the prevalence, timing and associations of residential moves occurring in association with admission. Moves tended to cluster around discharge; 15% of inpatients moved during admission or up to 28 days after dischar...

cases treated, and the line of practice followed in the surgical wards of this hospital, I have selected the month of November 1870; and although most of the cases were admitted during the previous months, still they would fully indicate the amount of -work done during the month under report. The cases are arranged according to the dates of admission of the patients into the hospital:? Is*.?D ,...

BACKGROUND Acute psychiatric wards have been the focus of widespread dissatisfaction. Residential alternatives have attracted much interest, but little research, over the past 50 years. AIMS Our aims were to identify all in-patient and residential alternatives to standard acute psychiatric wards in England, to develop a typology of such services and to describe their distribution and clinical...

1 Hospices Civils de Lyon, Groupement Hospitalier Edouard Herriot, Service de Réanimation Médicale, F-69003 Lyon, France 2 Faculté de Médecine Lyon-Est, Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, F-69008 Lyon, France 3 Unité d’Hygiène, Epidémiologie et Prévention, Groupement Hospitalier Edouard Herriot, F-69003 Lyon, France 4 Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1, CNRS UMR 5558, Equipe Epidémiologi...