Low-Value Medical Services in the Safety-Net Population

The emergency medical services safety attitudes questionnaire.

To characterize safety culture in emergency medical services (EMS), the authors modified a validated safety culture instrument, the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire (SAQ). The pilot instrument was administered to 3 EMS agencies in a large metropolitan area. The authors characterized safety culture across 6 domains: safety climate, teamwork climate, perceptions of management, job satisfaction, wor...

Pediatric Patient Safety in Emergency Medical Services

Since the publication of early studies highlighting the prevalence, impact, and costs of medical errors in the 1990s, patient safety has been the subject of considerable attention and study, primarily focused on adults and the inpatient setting. Less progress has been made with regard to pediatric patient safety and even less in the prehospital environment. This article reviews the issues and l...

The safety-net role of international medical graduates.

Recovery from medical errors: the critical care nursing safety net.

BACKGROUND Safety initiatives have primarily focused on physicians despite the fact that nurses provide the majority of direct inpatient care. Patient surveillance and preventing errors from harming patients represent essential nursing responsibilities but have received relatively little study. METHODS The study was conducted between July 2003 and July 2004 in a 10-bed academic coronary care ...

Attitudes toward safety and its affecting factors in Sanandaj emergency medical services staffs, in 2017

Background and Aim: Safety is one of the important subjects in the pre-hospital settings. Determination and evaluation of safety attitudes of the emergency staff is the first step toward improving the safety of the staff and patients. In this study, we investigated safety attitudes and the factors affecting safety such as error and accident history, during mission, in the last year, in the staf...