...Anna V. Chatzi; Kyriakos I. Kourousis Purpose Healthcare has undergone multiple phases in gaining understanding, accepting and implementing quality and safety, with the last 3 decades being crucial and decisive in making progress. During that time, safety has always been quoted along with quality...

...Mark J. Avery; Allan W. Cripps; Gary D. Rogers Purpose This study explores key governance, leadership and management activities that have impact on quality, risk and safety within Australian healthcare organisations. Design/methodology/approach Current non-executive directors (n = 12...

... during a one-year Norwegian longitudinal intervention study following managers in nursing homes and homecare services in their daily quality and safety work. They use this material to propose a model of management and resilience. Findings The authors consider managerial strategies to support...

...Homayoun Sadeghi-Bazargani; Jafar Sadegh Tabrizi; Mohammad Saadati; Roya Hassanzadeh; Gisoo Alizadeh Purpose – Clinical governance (CG) was used as a driver to improve safety and quality of healthcare. CG implementing is a change in health system and all the stakeholders must be participating...

... rate of 38 per cent. Substantial improvements were reported to have taken place across services with the most notable changes being improved safeguarding of patients’ rights and increased safety of care. Additionally, major changes were reported in professional working with new topics being discussed...

...Yasmeen Alhatmi Purpose Globally, safety in healthcare services has become an important focus. The Sultan Qaboos University Hospital (SQUH), located in the Sultanate of Oman in the Arabian Gulf, has begun to take active steps in delivering safer healthcare services while moving towards healthcare...

... of two elements to an existing attribute and a new attribute and defining elements. This showed that the organisation was working towards, but not yet having achieved, a positive quality and safety culture. In particular, a schism in understanding between managers and frontline staff was noted...

..., process variation and “near miss” events on incident reports coupled with outcomes, survival rates, infection rates and more. Archiving and reporting essential data elements through the CDC's National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN), a world‐class network that grew out of NNIS, is another important...

... patient safety issue. Preventing AEs would reduce readmissions, patient discomfort and associated costs. Routine monitoring of AEs is recommended. Ashley Kable can be contacted at: ashley.kable@newcastle.edu.au © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Patient care Safety Surgery Risk...

... responsible for ensuring allergy status documentation on drug charts significantly increased use of this safety measure. Ziver F. Ismail can be contacted at: ziver.ismail@tiscali.co.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Patients Auditing Governance Quality Risk management Safety...

... for cystoscopy. Cancer Safety Urinary system Medical care In the UK alone 10,000 new cases of bladder cancer are diagnosed per annum, placing this disease second only to prostate cancer as a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in terms of genitourinary malignancy. Primary treatment...

...Sam Sheps Purpose Seeks to explore conceptual approaches and training paradigms that are necessary to counter new challenges in the face of new concepts and tools to assess and mitigate threats to patient safety, while enhancing quality of care. Design/methodology/approach Interdisciplinary...

...Jane Cowan; Sean Kavanagh Purpose To examine the content of the new Foundation Years Curriculum for newly‐qualified medical graduates in terms of its patient‐safety and risk‐management emphases. To examine briefly the impact the curriculum will have on medical trainers responsible for such issues...

... from both questionnaires comprised of a similar group of healthcare professionals, p>0.05 (see Table I). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Clinical audit Patients Safety Reports This follow‐up study is the final phase of a two‐year research project (see Giles...

...David Birnbaum There are noteworthy international convergences in recent guiding documents for infection control and other patient safety programs. Although these bode well for raising the future prominence of such programs, they also are an indictment of failed past leadership and an external prop...

.... © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Obstetrics Medical practice Medical treatment Safety Obstetric emergencies may threaten the life of both foetus and mother. Shoulder dystocia describes the arrest of descent of foetal shoulders in the antero‐posterior plane, preventing...

...Chris Quinn; Elaine Stevenson; Helen Glenister The National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) has been established to reduce the risk of patient safety incidents and promote learning across the National Health Service that will improve patient safety and help organisations to learn from the experience...

... it difficult to gauge the level of risk to older people within the UK’s health‐care system. The themes of patient safety and risk management are given insufficient emphasis in the NSF. By neglecting the role of the clinical risk manager in the safe implementation of the NSF, many opportunities for learning...

... are to become more effective and widespread, they need help, support and assistance to do so. This is where the TRM comes in. The TRM applies learning about teams and team working to improve patient care and safety. The programme is made up of three inter‐related elements: team coaching; working...

...David Birnbaum; William Scheckler Patient safety and medical error have become prominent issues following publication of Institute of Medicine reports in the USA. The USA, Australia, and now Canada have followed a national “medical error” studies path that uses language rejected...