OBJECTIVES To assess chemotherapy patients' perceptions of safety and their attitudes towards participating in error-prevention strategies. DESIGN Semistructured interviews were conducted with 30 chemotherapy patients at baseline. Follow-up interviews were conducted 9 weeks later. SETTING A community hospital in Switzerland. RESULTS Though patients had experienced errors in their care, th...

introduction: health care organizations, especially hospitals, must focus on patient safety as their main strategy. cultural change is the most important challenge that they are faced with in creating a safe system. the present article aims to improve the patient safety culture with an assessment of the safety in fatemeh zahra hospital, najafabad, iran. methods: this descriptive and cross-secti...

OBJECTIVE The importance of involving patients in reporting on safety is increasingly recognized. Whilst studies have identified barriers to clinician incident reporting, few have explored barriers and facilitators to patient reporting of safety experiences. This paper explores patient perspectives on providing feedback on safety experiences. DESIGN/PARTICIPANTS Patients (n=28) were invited t...

Background: Recently, rituximab has been successfully used for the treatment of pemphigus family, the main subtype of which is pemphigus vulgaris (PV). The aim of this study was to determine the efficacy and safety of rituximab in refractory PV. Methods: In an observational study extending from November 2014 to February 2016, 30 patients with refractory PV were treated with rituximab. Response ...

We present a decidable class of first-order formulas in the general theory of stable models that can be instantiated even in the presence of function constants. The notion of an argument-restricted formula presented here is a natural generalization of both the notion of an argument-restricted program and the notion of a semi-safe sentence that have been studied in different contexts. Based on t...

The Greek national action “Goneis.gr” educates and trains the parents of highschool children on the issue of safer internet, as well as on the use of ICT. Having trained more than 28.300 parents, the initiative aims at providing about 45.000 parents with the same training. Examining the Beneficiaries’ degree of satisfaction by the initiative, we conducted a survey in a sample of Beneficiaries t...

OBJECTIVE The present study investigates the influence of income, ethnicity, and built environmental characteristics on the percentages of workers who walk/bike as well as on pedestrian/cyclist crash rates. Furthermore, income and ethnicity disparities are also explored. METHODS This study chose 162 census tracts in Austin as the unit of analysis. To explore income and ethnicity differences i...

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