Creating a safety culture in academic laboratories

Creating a Better Patient Safety Culture in Taiwan: The Viewpoints of Physicians and Registered Nurses

Background: Patient safety culture in healthcare organizations has become an important issue globally for improving medical services. In 2016, Taiwan’s National Health Insurance (NHI) system covered 99.6% of Taiwan’s population. With the enhancement of medical quality, patients expect medical service providers to care more about safety and medical service. Understanding physici...

Creating a Culture of Academic Integrity and Professionalism.

Team communications in surgery - creating a culture of safety.

As a key department within a healthcare organisation, the operating room is a hazardous environment, where the consequences of errors are high, despite the relatively low rates of occurrence. Team performance in surgery is increasingly being considered crucial for a culture of safety. The aim of this study was to describe team communication and the ways it fostered or threatened safety culture ...

Creating a Culture of Patient Safety through Innovative Hospital Design

When SynergyHealth, St. Joseph’s Hospital of West Bend, Wisconsin, decided to relocate and build an 82-bed acute care facility, we recognized the opportunity to design a hospital that focused on patient safety. Hospital leaders believed if a facility design process was “engineered properly,” it would enhance patient safety and create a patient safe culture; however, we found little information ...

Creating a culture of safety: reducing hospital noise.

Editor’s Note: In 2006, Susan E. Mazer wrote an article for BI&T that examined the impact of hospital noise on patient safety. Six years later, Mazer takes a fresh look at the issue In comparing the state of healthcare in the 19th century with that of the 21st century, it is clear that the uncontrollable and seemingly unmanageable ways that noise penetrates the hospital environment has changed ...