Enhancing public safety in primary care

Enhancing Safety in Accident and Emergency Care

Public housing relocations in Atlanta, Georgia, and declines in spatial access to safety net primary care.

This analysis investigates changes in spatial access to safety-net primary care in a sample of US public housing residents relocating via the HOPE VI initiative from public housing complexes to voucher-subsidized rental units; substance misusers were oversampled. We used gravity-based models to measure spatial access to care, and used mixed models to assess pre-/post-relocation changes in acces...

Enhancing primary care through online communication.

The effective delivery of primary care requires more frequent information exchange and communication than the typical office visit allows. Although industry leaders endorse health information technology (IT) to improve health outcomes and reduce costs, there has been less attention devoted to the use of this technology to deliver care. Using Internet-based technologies such as secure messaging,...

Promoting patient safety in primary care.

Editor—We were both surprised by Wilson et al who, in their editorial, ask everybody to send in reports of their errors. Our concerns remain regardless of whether or not such accounts are published anonymously. After all, the police have used anonymous medical research data in their investigations. A conviction of culpable and reckless behaviour was secured against a man after he had sexual int...

Exploring patient safety culture in primary care.

OBJECTIVE To explore perceptions of safety culture in nine different types of primary care professions and to study possible differences. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey. SETTING Three hundred and thirteen practices from nine types of primary care profession groups in the Netherlands. PARTICIPANTS Professional staff from primary care practices. Nine professions participated: dental care, di...