CONTEXT The source of health information can have an impact on the manner and frequency of its use. In the arena of vaccine safety, a variety of sources promulgate information from very different perspectives. The spectrum runs from traditional sources such as public health officials and physicians to nontraditional sources, such as celebrities. OBJECTIVE To assess what proportion of parents ...

Objectives This study explores how medical graduates and their workplace supervisors perceive the value of a structured clinical audit program (CAP) undertaken during medical school. Methods Medical students at the University of Notre Dame Fremantle complete a structured clinical audit program in their final year of medical school.  Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 12 Notre Dame...

BACKGROUND Our aim was to explore NHS staff perceptions and experiences of the impact on patient safety of introducing a maternity system. METHODS Qualitative semi-structured interviews were conducted with 19 members of NHS staff who represented a variety of staff groups (doctors, midwives, health care assistants), staff grades (consultant and midwife grades) and wards within a maternity unit...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study is to examine associations between the neighborhood social environment and leisure-time physical activity (LTPA)(1) and walking among women, and whether these associations are mediated by perceived personal safety. METHODS Women (n = 3784) living in disadvantaged urban and rural neighborhoods within Victoria, Australia completed a self-administered survey on fi...

The practice of obstetrics is evolving to include more laborists staffing obstetric units. However, there is little data regarding individual hospitals’ reasons for adoption, the adoption process, and the perceived outcomes. In order to gain a better understanding of the rationale behind the adoption of the laborist model, role of the laborist, costs involved in the adoption, and perceived chan...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To develop and test a worksite intervention that protects healthcare workers who handle antineoplastic drugs from work-related exposures. 
. DESIGN Intervention study. 
. SETTING A university hospital in a large midwestern metropolitan area and its outpatient chemotherapy infusion clinic.
. SAMPLE 163 staff (nurses, pharmacists, and pharmacy technicians) who work with a...

Background: Identifying correlates of physical activity that can be targeted as potential mediators is important for developing interventions to promote physical activity in adolescent girls. However, the mediated effects of multilevel correlates of physical activity remain poorly understood. Therefore, the present study aimed to examine direct and mediated effects of personal, social and perce...

Although medical error reporting has been studied, underreporting remains pervasive. The study aims were to identify the organizational factors with the greatest perceived effect on error reporting and to determine whether associations differ for management and clinical staff. A total of 515 637 respondents from 1052 hospitals completed the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture. Nine organi...

To make blood components and blood products safe, many safety measures are applied to avoid transfusion-transmitted infections. Defining a balanced safety policy is not easy, we face several dilemmas: How safe should blood be? Should we opt for maximal or optimal safety? Are perceived threats real and relevant? Should blood be clean while food, air, or mosquitoes are not? Is vCJD still a threat...

Few studies of walkability include both perceived and audited walkability measures. We examined perceived walkability (Neighborhood Environment Walkability Scale-Abbreviated, NEWS-A) and audited walkability (Irvine-Minnesota Inventory, IMI) measures for residents living within 2 km of a "complete street"-one renovated with light rail, bike lanes, and sidewalks. For perceived walkability, we fou...