OBJECTIVES To assess the safety culture in an acute medical admissions unit (AMAU) of a teaching hospital in order to benchmark results against international data and guide a unit-based, integrated, risk management strategy. METHODS The safety attitudes questionnaire (SAQ), a validated instrument for the measurement of safety culture was applied to an AMAU. All AMAU healthcare staff (n = 92) ...

BACKGROUND As the first objective of caring for patients is to do no harm, patient safety is a priority in delivering clinical care. An essential component of safe care in a clinical department is its safety climate. Safety climate correlates with safety-specific behaviour, injury rates, and accidents. Safety climate in healthcare can be assessed by the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire (SAQ), whi...

OBJECTIVES This study examined the intentions, knowledge, and attitudes of college students regarding the use of emergency contraceptive pills (ECPs) and condoms. DESIGN AND SETTING A cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted at 16 Korean colleges. METHODS Data were collected from March 15 to June 10, 2006 from a convenience sample of 1046 college students using a survey questionnaire...

UNLABELLED Long-term complications in levodopa treated Parkinson's disease (PD) patients caused a resurgence of interest in pallidotomy as an option of treatment. However, postoperative complications such as speech disorders can occur. PURPOSE The aim of this study is to evaluate the acoustic voice in PD patients, before and after posteroventral pallidotomy. METHOD Twelve patients with PD w...

Background and Purpose: Emergency Department (ED) staff are frequently faced with road traffic injury victims and also play role as various road users. This study was conducted to investigate the knowledge, attitude, and practices of ED staff towards road safety at referral trauma hospitals of Tabriz. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted in 2020 in the referral traum...

Background: Patient safety has become a priority and pre-requisite for the provision for effective quality care. Simulation is seen as one method to ensure patient safety as this method allows for the attainment of skills and promotes the transference of these skills into safe clinical practice.Method: A pretest posttest research design was used. 34 Female critical care students were convenient...

Objectives The aim of the present study was to explore nurse perceptions of safety climate in acute Australian hospitals.Methods Participants included 420 nurses who have worked on 24 acute wards from six Australian hospitals. The Safety Attitudes Questionnaire (SAQ) Short Form was used to quantify nurse perceptions of safety climate and benchmarked against international data. Generalised linea...

1Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, USA 2Data Analytics center, Kangwon National University, Korea 3Leadership Development Division, The Catholic Education Foundation, Korea 4Performance Improvement Team, Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea, Korea 5Center for Patient Education, The Care Q...