Imperfect measure of hospital safety

Imperfect measure of hospital safety.

Safety Climate on Hospital Units: A New Measure

Objectives: The purpose of this project was to create a measure of safety climate for hospital inpatient care units and to determine the psychometric properties of the measure. Methods: The first version of the measure was derived from published literature. Two rounds of expert review refined that measure. The measure was then pilot tested with 213 RN staff nurses working on 19 units in two hos...

Performance Analysis of a Repairable Robot Safety System with Standby, Imperfect Coverage and Reboot Delay

The present study deals with a robot safety system composed of standby robot units and inbuilt safety unit. When the main operative unit fails, it is replaced by the standby robot unit available in the system. The concept of reboot delay is also incorporated in this study according to which the robot unit is rebooted if it is not successfully recovered. The recovery and reboot times of failed u...

Clustering of Imperfect Transcripts Using a Novel Similarity Measure

There has been a surge of interest in last several years in methods for automatic generation of content indices for multimedia documents, particularly with respect to video and audio documents. As a result, there is much interest in methods for analyzing transcribed documents from audio and video broadcasts and telephone conversations and messages. The present paper deals with such an analysis ...

The Safety Organizing Scale: development and validation of a behavioral measure of safety culture in hospital nursing units.

BACKGROUND Evidence that medical error is a systemic problem requiring systemic solutions continues to expand. Developing a "safety culture" is one potential strategy toward improving patient safety. A reliable and valid self-report measure of safety culture is needed that is both grounded in concrete behaviors and is positively related to patient safety. OBJECTIVE We sought to develop and te...