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Research article
The complexity of health care systems, the development of clinical approaches, and both scientific and technological advancements give rise to new requirements in clinical risk management. An expedient risk ma...
Safety in Health 2017 3:9
Published on: 7 August 2017
Research article
Progress towards Millennium Development Goals (MDG) 5 is uneven across different countries. Maternal and neonatal deaths occur mainly in developing countries especially in rural areas and among the poor commun...
Safety in Health 2017 3:8
Published on: 21 July 2017
Research article
Certification and accreditation are widely used to achieve quality and safety in health care but are also questioned regarding their assumed effects. This is a challenge for policymakers and managers, since ad...
Safety in Health 2017 3:7
Published on: 19 July 2017
Short report
The International High 5s Project was developed by the World Health Organisation to address major concerns about patient safety. The Standard Operating Protocol (SOP) for ensuring medication accuracy during tr...
Safety in Health 2017 3:6
Published on: 23 May 2017
Commentary
The medical device industry is a significant and major contributor to global health, yet innovation and research remains suboptimal. Current data focuses on devices, recalls and economics without genuine refle...
Safety in Health 2017 3:5
Published on: 3 April 2017
Research article
Policies for health technologies such as medical devices are essential and contribute to improved quality of healthcare. The regulation, assessment, and management represent important functions of medical devi...
Safety in Health 2017 3:4
Published on: 14 March 2017
Research article
We could say that external inspections support improvement of healthcare services, but we know little about how. The aim of this study was to increase knowledge about how county governors, as external inspecto...
Safety in Health 2017 3:3
Published on: 3 March 2017
Commentary
Patient education facilitates imparting information to the patients and their caregivers by the health professionals and others that alter the patients’ health behaviors, improve their health status and uprigh...
Safety in Health 2017 3:2
Published on: 26 January 2017
Research article
The burden of chronic diseases is rapidly increasing worldwide. In 2005, at least 35 million people of all ages, nationalities, and socioeconomic levels died from heart disease, stroke, diabetes, respiratory d...
Safety in Health 2017 3:1
Published on: 19 January 2017
Commentary
As a major quality management issue, in health care we have to deal with limitless complexity, be it at the level of the individual patient or at the level of the health system. Today complexity is characteriz...
Safety in Health 2016 2:16
Published on: 12 December 2016
Research article
Errors occur frequently in the use of medicines. Pharmacists play a key role in error identification and make appropriate interventions as they work with other healthcare professionals. These error recovery ro...
Safety in Health 2016 2:15
Published on: 30 November 2016
Short report
As population’s age and people live longer, the burden on acute health care services associated with the frail aged increases. Recognising the needs of this cohort as well as designing and evaluating intervent...
Safety in Health 2016 2:14
Published on: 9 November 2016
Research article
Saving time means saving neurons in stroke care process. Managerial and organizational solutions that lean the processes should be considered in order to overcome the effects of stroke, which is the second wor...
Safety in Health 2016 2:12
Published on: 29 September 2016
Research article
Decision-making in health care delivery should be based on the best available current, valid and relevant evidence. Healthcare professionals should therefore be well versed with the skills required to make evi...
Safety in Health 2016 2:11
Published on: 29 September 2016
Research article
Electronic prescribing and medication administration (ePMA) is purported to improve patient safety through a number of benefits including reducing medication errors and facilitating identification of prescribe...
Safety in Health 2016 2:13
Published on: 29 September 2016
Meeting abstracts
A1 Meet the needs: Important questions for ICU relatives
Safety in Health 2016 2(Suppl 1):9
Published on: 20 September 2016
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 2 Supplement 1
Review
Joint Commission predicted that 80 % of the serious safety events occur due to miscommunications among healthcare professionals. Speaking up is one of the critical behaviors of patient safety that displays an ...
Safety in Health 2016 2:10
Published on: 19 August 2016
Review
Middle managers within healthcare hold a unique position between senior leadership and frontline staff, and may hold a pivotal function in the implementation of quality improvement (QI) projects. This review a...
Safety in Health 2016 2:8
Published on: 4 August 2016
Research article
Diagnostic reference levels (DRLs) are optimum range of values or diagnostic standard data for a particular procedure by which other imaging measurements must be compared for purposes of optimizing patient dos...
Safety in Health 2016 2:7
Published on: 2 August 2016
Research article
Although surgical checklist use is not new in Switzerland, compliance and actual use fall short behind expectations taking scientific recommendation as standard. A national media campaign to raise awareness, i...
Safety in Health 2016 2:6
Published on: 7 July 2016
Research article
Burn injuries remain a consistent challenge for providers of medical care worldwide and thus the current focus of medical professionals is on improving treatments and reducing the incidence of burns altogether...
Safety in Health 2016 2:5
Published on: 16 May 2016
Research article
Unlike the patient safety research network, no consensus document exists that outlines definitions and concepts that pertain to the workplace violence research environment in the health sector. There are no ag...
Safety in Health 2016 2:4
Published on: 16 May 2016
Research article
Accreditation of hospitals and other institutions is a widely used instrument for the quality assurance in health care. However, relevant literature regarding the economic evaluation of hospital accreditation ...
Safety in Health 2016 2:2
Published on: 15 March 2016
Research article
In this study, we developed an animated movie as a novel educational tool for fall prevention, and intended for patients and caregivers. We evaluated this new animation, comparing its effectiveness both before...
Safety in Health 2016 2:3
Published on: 15 March 2016
Editorial
Safety in Health 2016 2:1
Published on: 15 January 2016
