Patient safety: the journey towards safer radiotherapy

A sabbatical journey of discovery: patient safety.

This is the second in a series of reports to share key learnings from my sabbatical. In spring and summer of 2005, I took a three-month journey through Scandinavia, Europe, Ireland and the United Kingdom to observe innovation in nursing service delivery, in particular, nursing-led services; to explore outcome measurement as it relates to nursing services; to look at patient satisfaction and imp...

Towards safer care in Sweden? : Studies of influences on patient safety

On the journey to a culture of patient safety.

In 2005, our hospital participated in a Canadian Council on Health Services Accreditation (CCHSA) Patient Safety Cultural Assessment project. Online survey results collected and analyzed by CCHSA demonstrated numerous opportunities for our organization to improve its patient safety culture. An eight-point Patient Safety Plan was created, and over the following two years, numerous patient safety...

Attitude of Health Center Staff towards the Components of Patient Safety Culture and Assessing Patient Satisfaction, Amol, Iran

Background and purpose: Patient safety is one of the most important indicators of primary healthcare settings. There is a direct association between patient safety culture and improvement in healthcare outcomes. Also, identifying the factors that enhance client satisfaction could be of great help in improving quality of care. This research was done to investigate patient safety culture in healt...

Recommendations for safer radiotherapy: what’s the message?

Radiotherapy, with close to a million courses delivered per year in North America, is a very safe and effective intervention for a devastating disease. However, although rare, several deeply regrettable incidents have occurred in radiotherapy and have rightly been the subject of considerable public interest. Partly in response to reports of these incidents a variety of authoritative organizatio...