Worldwide, epidemiological data indicate that children are a high-risk group for drowning and while progress has been made in understanding toddler drownings, there is a lack of empirical evidence regarding the drowning risk and protective factors inherent for adolescents and young adults. This study used a self-report questionnaire to establish swimming and water safety knowledge and attitudes...

Background: Safety climate assessment is increasingly recognized as an important factor in healthcare quality improvement, especially in operating rooms (OR). One of the most commonly used and rigorously validated tools to measure safety culture is the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire (SAQ). This study presents the validation of the Operating Room Version of the SAQ (SAQ-OR) for use in Portuguese...

PURPOSE Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is commonly performed in high-risk, high intensity situations and is therefore a good procedure around which to develop and implement safety culture strategies in the hospital. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of a hospital-wide quality improvement program on the management of sudden cardiac arrests by assessing healthcare provider...

RESUMO Objetivos: analisar a cultura de segurança do paciente partir da percepção dos profissionais enfermagem um hospital universitário, por meio avaliação convergência entre o Safety Attitudes Questionnaire e Hospital Survey on Patient Culture. Métodos: estudo transversal, com 434 enfermagem. A coleta dados ocorreu mediante aplicação ambos os instrumentos. Utilizou-se estatística descritiva i...

BACKGROUND The importance of creating and sustaining a strong culture of patient safety has been recognized as a critical component of safe medication use. This study aims to assess changes in attitudes toward patient safety culture and frequency of quality-related event (QRE) reporting after guided implementation of a continuous quality improvement (CQI) program in a panel of community pharmac...

Objectives: To test the hypothesis that behavioural predictors of serious Road Traffic Crashes (RTC) are correlated with unfavourable attitudes towards traffic safety. Participants: 13 447 of the 19 894 living members of the GAZEL cohort, workers and recent retirees of a French national utility company followed up since 1989. Main outcomes measures: Driving behaviours and attitudes towards traf...