OBJECTIVE Encouraging patients to be more vigilant about their care challenges the traditional dynamics of patient-healthcare professional interactions. This study aimed to explore, from the perspectives of both patients and frontline healthcare staff, the potential consequences of patient-mediated intervention as a way of pushing safety improvement through the involvement of patients. DESIGN...

Patients and visitors to healthcare premises will not be familiar with buildings or the fire safety measures and procedures that are in place. Healthcare staff have a key role to ensure the safety of everyone who could be present. Healthcare premises are required to have high standards of fire safety built into the fabric of the building together with robust fire safety procedures. In order tha...

introduction: the diseases and problems due to ageing can affect the quality of life (qol) in the elderly. the aim of this study was to compare the effects of self-care program education run by health volunteers and healthcare staff on the qol in the elderly. methods: in this experimental, field trial study, 150 elderly people living in mashhad were enrolled by multistage sampling in 2014. the ...

Safety in aviation has often been compared with safety in healthcare. Following a recent article in this journal, the UK government set up an Independent Patient Safety Investigation Service, to emulate a similar well-established body in aviation. On the basis of a detailed review of relevant publications that examine patient safety in the context of aviation practice, we have drawn up a table ...

T he debate on whether healthcare professionals should be tested for the human immunodef ic iency virus J (HIV) has fired up recently, especially since the case of the Florida dentist who infected five patients. Until then most patients and healthcare professionals perceived the risk of patient infection as theoretical at best. Hut repeated questions have arisen recently about the mandatory tes...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the patient safety culture in primary healthcare units. DESIGN A cross-sectional study, utilizing the Turkish version of the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture developed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and a demographic questionnaire. SETTING Twelve primary healthcare centers in the center of the city of Konya, Turkey. PARTICIPANTS One hundre...

Within the healthcare system, training and continued professional development although essential, can be effected by cost and logistical restraints due to the nature of healthcare provision e.g employee shift patterns, access to expertise, cost factors in releasing staff to attend training etc. The use of multimedia technology for the development of e-learning applications is also a major cost ...

OBJECTIVE This research examines whether the physical attractiveness of an outpatient practice influences patients' perceptions of healthcare quality, including patient and staff perceptions of the quality of staff-patient interaction. BACKGROUND Despite the high and increasing percentage of healthcare dollars for care delivered on an outpatient basis, relatively little research has examined ...

BACKGROUND Quality care in health facilities is critical for a sustainable health insurance system because of its influence on clients' decisions to participate in health insurance and utilize health services. Exploration of the different dimensions of healthcare quality and their associations will help determine more effective quality improvement interventions and health insurance sustainabili...

BACKGROUND Clinical practice guidelines aim to enhance patient safety by reducing inappropriate variations in practice. Despite considerable efforts to enhance the use of clinical practice guidelines, adherence is often suboptimal. We investigated to what extent workplace affiliation explains variation of self-reported adherence to venous blood specimen collection regarding patient identificati...