...Naomi Burns; Zina Alkaisy; Elaine Sharp Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the attitudes and beliefs of doctors towards medication error reporting following 15 years of a national patient safety agenda. Design/methodology/approach This is a qualitative descriptive study utilising...

...Liselotte Jakobsson; Leif Holmberg Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study patients' attitudes to nurses and investigate what hampering factors occur in the actual nursing situation and what patient features might affect cooperative climates. Design/methodology/approach In‐depth...

..., no question was included that identifies a respondent's department or ward. The non‐parametric chi‐square test was used to detect statistical significance. Anastasius Moumtzoglou can be contacted at: anas1@hol.gr © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Attitudes Surveys Risk...

..., or to the general public but findings are congruent with attitudes to performance data for other conditions, and serve as a conceptual basis for further study. Practical implications Strategies for maximizing the relevance of performance reports might include technical process indicators, selection by multi...

... the least and nurses the most positive attitudes. Alternative hypotheses were that doctors' relative power and other professions' team‐working skills would advantage the respective groups when conducting RCAs. Design/methodology/approach Responses to a 2005 follow‐up questionnaire survey of doctors...

... of attitude. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Communication Patient care Training Attitudes Skills It is patient groups such as the terminally ill, of course, who are most in need of communication qualities such as empathy on the part of their carers. But more generally, it seems...

... MCB UP Limited 2003 Doctors Attitudes Drug administration Reports Error analysis A semi‐structured interview aimed to probe the participants on key areas that may influence the reporting of medication errors was developed. A semi‐structured format was used to allow free...

... methodologies; that junior doctors’ professional attitudes towards clinical audit are influenced by negative experience of undertaking audit within their specialities; and that there was a variety of understanding about the principles and meaning of clinical governance. It concluded that the conditions...

... partners. To understand the system and be able to change it we have to see it from the patient’s point of view. This implies a change of attitude in health care. Each of us have to select, plan and execute our own behavioural changes. We also have to create a system based on the premises of the consumers...