775 Patient safety in the operating room: nurses’ experience and attitudes in cyprus

Attitudes of Healthcare Professionals toward Patient Safety in the Operating Room

Background & Aims: Patient safety is considered to be an inherent element of healthcare quality. Unsafe attitudes of healthcare employees are a major issue for healthcare providers in promoting the quality of care, which is closely correlated with the occurrence of hospital errors and incidents. On the other hand, development of optimal patient safety is not possible without establishing safety...

Using Fuzzy FMEA to Increase Patient Safety in Fundamental Processes of Operating Room

Risk assessment is a standard tool in health care systems which is used to improve patient safety. Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) as a powerful risk assessment tool for safety and reliability widely applied by industries such as aerospace, nuclear, automotive, chemical, mechanical, medical technologies, and electronics. FMEA is popular technique, but it has some substantial deficienci...

The lost sponge: patient safety in the operating room.

A prospective study of patient safety in the operating room.

BACKGROUND To better understand the operating room as a system and to identify system features that influence patient safety, we performed an analysis of operating room patient care using a prospective observational technique. METHODS A multidisciplinary team comprised of human factors experts and surgeons conducted prospective observations of 10 complex general surgery cases in an academic h...

Operating room professionals’ attitudes towards patient safety and the influencing factors

Objective To determine operating room professionals'attitudes towards patient safety and the influencing factors. Methods This study was conducted in research hospitals in Izmir, Turkey using descriptive, cross-sectional and correlation research designs. The sample of this study consisted of 477 individuals including nurses, physicians and anesthesia technicians. Data were collected using the...