Participating in patients for patient safety program will help place patients at the center of efforts to improve patient safety. This paper presented a brief introduction to patients for patient safety program and its significance and functions.
Objective To systematically review the abroad studies on patients for patient safety, and compare them with the current status of domestic studies, so as to provide suggestions for evidence-based strategic decision about how to conduct the education of patients for patient safety and improve the medical quality. Methods The databases of MEDLINE, EMbase and Chinese Biomedical Literature Database (CBM) were searched to identify the relevant studies and their references. Literatures were screened with data extraction in accordance with the predefined inclusive and exclusive criteria. The quality of literatures was assessed with the standard of Cochrane Handbook 5.0 and Critical Appraisal Skills Programme, and the data were comprehensively analyzed with qualitative research methods.Results Among 28 included studies, 5 were Chinese literatures, 1 was RCT, and the others were cross-sectional studies. The results showed that: a) Generally, the patients at home and abroad were poor in the awareness of patient safety, but they were eager to participate in the patient safety; b) Factors affecting patients’ participation were their characteristics, disease-related, and emotional feelings; c) Three studies reported the methods of involving patients in patient safety from the aspects of infection, malpractice, and medication; d) Some studies showed that patients’ participation could effectively promote the standardized operation of medical staffs, prevent unsafe events, and reduce damages; and e) The research contents of the included Chinese literatures were just related to the patients’ awareness of patient safety, attitude to participation, and influencing factors. Conclusion The limited studies relevant to patients for patient safety are short of high-quality RCTs for proving the effectiveness of patient participation methods, so it indicates that the stress should be laid on evaluating the effectiveness of patients for patient safety in future research.
Nursing staff is one kind of health care professionals who have the most contact with patients and plays an important role in improving patient safety. Patients safety education is a considerable way to raising nurses’ consciousness related to the patient safety. And this paper describes the current status, analyzes the current problems and proposes some suggestions in order to promote the standardization, systematization and scientificization of patient safety education for nursing staff in China.
ObjectivesTo investigate the present status of clinical nurses' attitude towards patient safety and its influencing factors.MethodsA total of 2 290 clinical nurses in 10 large general hospitals in Anhui Province were investigated by general data and patient safety attitude questionnaire (SAQ).ResultsThe total score of the nurse's patient safety attitude was 112.57±11.83, in which the 6 dimension scores arranged from high to low were management recognition, working conditions, job satisfaction, team cooperation, safety climate, and pressure perception. Nurses who were female, marriage, college degrees, head nurse, and receivded patient safety education had higher total scores.ConclusionsScores of nurses of tertiary 3A hospitals in Anhui Province are overall above average. The influencing factors of nurses’ safety attitude are gender, marital status, education level, length of service, whether being head nurse, and whether being received safety education.
To attend the Patient Safety Summit of UK Presidency of the EU 2005, learn and share ideas with each other, participate in discussing and developing the vision and mission as well as goals for patients for patient safety program, seek the common interest for further cooperation so as to help promote the activities on patient safety in healthcare in China.
ObjectiveTo investigate and analyze the knowledge, skills and attitudes of clinical medical students and nursing students to patient safety before internship so as to provide evidence for implementation of patient safety curriculum in medical and nursing students. MethodsFive-year clinical medical undergraduates and nursing students before internship in the Wannan Medical College were recruited. The questionnaire method was performed to investigate the knowledge, attitudes and skills of patient safety. The data were input using EpiData 3.0 software and were analyzed by SPSS 13.0. ResultsA total of 771 questionnaires were distributed, of which 320 clinical medical students and 435 nursing students completed the survey. The results showed that, the totals of both kinds of students were low concerning the knowledge, attitudes and skills of patient safety; scores were significantly higher in nursing students than in clinical medical students concerning the items of "Knowledge about medical errors" (P=0.012), "Feelings about making errors" (P=0.000), "Feelings about making errors" (P=0.001), and "Personal attitudes to patient safety" (P=0.001). Scores of "Feelings about making errors" were significantly higher in female students than in male students. ConclusionBoth nursing students and clinical medical students lack the knowledge of patient safety before internship, and the latter lack more. More attention should be paid to the knowledge of patient safety for both clinical medical and nursing students.
Patient safety culture is an extension of the concept of safety culture in medical institutions and is a hot spot of current patient safety research. In recent years, patient safety culture research has developed rapidly, and new assessment tools and related research have emerged. There is a correlation between cultural factors and safety outcomes, and changing the patient safety culture can improve patient outcomes. This paper focuses on the literature review of patient safety and outpatient safety assessment tools published in China and abroad, analyzes and compares the performance characteristics of domestic and foreign assessment tools, and provides reference for the future patient safety culture research.
This paper introduces the current situation of patient safety movement in 20 years from its origin, and expounds the strategies of patient safety from six view points of medical reform, medical insurance, system, culture, education and training, and patient participation in patient safety, so as to promote the healthy development of patient safety work in China.