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Surgical site infections are one of the most common healthcare-associated infections in low- and middle-income countries, which cause prolonged hospital stays and increase patient susceptibility to other nosoc...
Citation: Safety in Health 2018 4:14
The risks of poor information transfer across healthcare settings are well documented, particularly for medication. Various patient-held tools have been designed to hold information about patients’ medicines t...
Citation: Safety in Health 2018 4:13
Proper pain assessment is a core component in management of trauma patients but prior literature has suggested that pain management is inadequate in emergency settings. With the development of emergency medici...
Citation: Safety in Health 2018 4:12
Digital healthcare information systems impose new demands on healthcare professionals, and information security rules may induce stressful value conflicts, which the professional culture may help professionals...
Citation: Safety in Health 2018 4:11
The proportion of elderly in the population in Sweden is increasing. Older adults are more vulnerable to disease and disability which in turn increases the prevalence of negative events as pressure ulcers, mal...
Citation: Safety in Health 2018 4:10
Patients in nursing homes are at risk of adverse events, representing a highly vulnerable group that is chronically weak and cognitively or physically reduced. To prevent adverse events, knowledge of patient s...
Citation: Safety in Health 2018 4:9
There are major challenges in ensuring medication safety and preventing adverse drug events in older people. Older people are especially vulnerable to drug-to-drug interactions (DDIs). However, when older pati...
Citation: Safety in Health 2018 4:8
Continuity of patient care is achieved by the clear and concise transfer of patient clinical information from one health care provider to another during handoff. Effective communication is a vital factor in pr...
Citation: Safety in Health 2018 4:7
The objective of this study was to determine whether a cluster scheme of allergic immunotherapy (AIT), starting administration of the therapeutic extract with the highest available concentration vial (vial B) ...
Citation: Safety in Health 2018 4:6
Current guidelines on the management of cancer pain include information referred to integral patient management, in order to get an improvement in their quality of care. The assessment of compliance with the r...
Citation: Safety in Health 2018 4:5
Citation: Safety in Health 2018 4(Suppl 1):4
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 4 Supplement 1
A wide range of methods have been used to assess the potential clinical importance of medication errors, but it is neither clear which should be used, nor how they compare. In this paper, we compare two method...
Citation: Safety in Health 2018 4:3
Most studies on occupational health and safety in home and community care focus on the health and safety of professional health care workers such as nurses and therapists and very few address the occupational ...
Citation: Safety in Health 2018 4:2
Immunization rates among the adult population in Saudi Arabia fall below desired targets, urging the need to expand this service in the community. Community pharmacists are recognized as highly accessible heal...
Citation: Safety in Health 2018 4:1
In the Yemeni healthcare setting, basic infection control measures are necessary to reduce the rates of hospital-associated infections.
Citation: Safety in Health 2017 3:16
The threefold aim of this study was to (1) describe attitudes to patient safety among healthcare providers in home health nursing (HHN), (2) investigate differences in attitudes due to age, education level, ye...
Citation: Safety in Health 2017 3:15
Primary care serves as an entry point in the Thai health care system. Whilst effective interventions are provided in the primary care setting, the quality of the services have not been measured or tracked. A n...
Citation: Safety in Health 2017 3:14
Due to new legislation in 2011 and 2013, the Swedish public healthcare system has undergone change as regards incident reporting and supervision. Focus has turned to learning from adverse events and sharing th...
Citation: Safety in Health 2017 3:13
Over many decades, the treatment of Dupuytren’s disease, a fibroproliferative disease of the hand, is the centre of various studies and publications. Surgical intervention has always been the method of choice,...
Citation: Safety in Health 2017 3:12
Internationally, patient safety is increasingly seen as a priority area, and improving patient safety highly depends on achieving a culture that supports and encourages health care staffs to report their error...
Citation: Safety in Health 2017 3:11
Very little research and practical efforts have been undertaken in public sector hospitals of Pakistan to promote error reporting and patient safety culture. Nurses in the country are key informants about the ...
Citation: Safety in Health 2017 3:10
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...
Citation: Safety in Health 2017 3:9
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...
Citation: Safety in Health 2017 3:8
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...
Citation: Safety in Health 2017 3:7
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...
Citation: Safety in Health 2017 3:6
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...
Citation: Safety in Health 2017 3:5
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...
Citation: Safety in Health 2017 3:4
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...
Citation: Safety in Health 2017 3:3
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...
Citation: Safety in Health 2017 3:2
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...
Citation: Safety in Health 2017 3:1
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...
Citation: Safety in Health 2016 2:16
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...
Citation: Safety in Health 2016 2:15
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...
Citation: Safety in Health 2016 2:14
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...
Citation: Safety in Health 2016 2:13
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...
Citation: Safety in Health 2016 2:12
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...
Citation: Safety in Health 2016 2:11
A1 Meet the needs: Important questions for ICU relatives
Citation: Safety in Health 2016 2(Suppl 1):9
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 2 Supplement 1
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 ...
Citation: Safety in Health 2016 2:10
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...
Citation: Safety in Health 2016 2:8
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...
Citation: Safety in Health 2016 2:7
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...
Citation: Safety in Health 2016 2:6
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...
Citation: Safety in Health 2016 2:5
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...
Citation: Safety in Health 2016 2:4
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...
Citation: Safety in Health 2016 2:3
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 ...
Citation: Safety in Health 2016 2:2
Citation: Safety in Health 2016 2:1
Burns are common injuries that are usually covered with a layer of necrotic tissue called the eschar. Early removal of the eschar is the current standard of care, however, debridement using tangential excision...
Citation: Safety in Health 2015 1:19
Citation: Safety in Health 2015 1(Suppl 1):A6
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 1 Supplement 1
Patients with allergies can be protected from potentially life threatening harm by recording their allergen and reaction correctly. Electronic prescribing is being widely implemented with a view to improving p...
Citation: Safety in Health 2015 1:18
Citation: Safety in Health 2015 1(Suppl 1):A8
This article is part of a Supplement: Volume 1 Supplement 1