OBJECTIVE In the 30 days after hospital discharge, hospital utilisation is common and costly. This study evaluated the association between gender and hospital utilisation within 30 days of discharge. DESIGN Secondary data analysis using Poisson regression stratified by gender. PARTICIPANTS 737 English-speaking hospitalised adults from general medical service in urban, academic safety-net me...

OBJECTIVE To study the psychometric characteristics of German version of the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture and to compare its dimensionality to other language versions in order to understand the instrument's potential for cross-national studies. DESIGN Cross-sectional multicentre study to establish psychometric properties of German version of the survey instrument. SETTING 73 un...

Objective: Determine the feasibility of using routinely collected hospital data for medical injury surveillance. Methods: The development, validation, and testing of screening criteria for medical injury was based on International Classification of Disease code discharge diagnoses, using 2001 patient data from Wisconsin hospitals. Outcomes included sensitivity; specificity; rate of medical inju...

Background & Aims of the Study: The purpose of the hospital accreditation program is to improve the patients' safety. Prevention of mistakes in medical procedures, patients' safety risk identification and infection prevention besides the patients' safety culture (PSC) are the key factors that must be considered in a successful patients' safety progr...

BACKGROUND Patient safety is of the utmost importance in health care. The patient safety culture in an institution has great impact on patient safety. To enhance patient safety and to design strategies to reduce medical injuries, there is a current focus on measuring the patient safety culture. The aim of the present study was to describe the patient safety culture in an ED at two different hos...

BACKGROUND Clinicians have a vital role in promoting patient safety that goes beyond their technical competence. The qualities and attributes of the safe hospital doctor have been explored but similar work within primary care is lacking. Exploring the skills and attributes of a safe GP may help to inform the development of training programmes to promote patient safety within primary care. This ...