Safety Management

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "Safety is everyone's job:" the key to safety on a large university construction site. 
  • A check-up for safety culture in "my patient care area". 
  • A group randomized trial to improve safe use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. 
  • A lift assist team in an acute care hospital-prevention of injury or transfer of risk during patient-handling tasks? 
  • A morning briefing: setting the stage for a clinically and operationally good day. 
  • A policy-based intervention for the reduction of communication breakdowns in inpatient surgical care: results from a Harvard surgical safety collaborative. 
  • A surgical safety checklist to reduce morbidity and mortality in a global population. 
  • A tiered approach to systemic toxicity testing for agricultural chemical safety assessment. 
  • ACC expert consensus document. Radiation safety in the practice of cardiology. American College of Cardiology. 
  • Adopting a surgical safety checklist could save money and improve the quality of care in U.S. hospitals. 
  • Alcohol skin preparation causes surgical fires. 
  • Are we finally ready for outpatient management of febrile neutropenia? 
  • Assessing and improving safety climate in a large cohort of intensive care units. 
  • Assessing and improving safety culture throughout an academic medical centre: a prospective cohort study. 
  • Assessing safety culture: guidelines and recommendations. 
  • Assessing the level of healthcare information technology adoption in the United States: a snapshot. 
  • Association of Safety Culture with Surgical Site Infection Outcomes. 
  • Associations between safety climate and safety management practices in the construction industry. 
  • Burnout in the NICU setting and its relation to safety culture. 
  • Changes in Safety and Teamwork Climate After Adding Structured Observations to Patient Safety WalkRounds. 
  • Changes in fall prevention training for apprentice carpenters based on a comprehensive needs assessment. 
  • Changes in safety attitude and relationship to decreased postoperative morbidity and mortality following implementation of a checklist-based surgical safety intervention. 
  • Changing safety culture. 
  • Cognitive work analysis to evaluate the problem of patient falls in an inpatient setting. 
  • Compendium of resources for radiation safety in medical imaging using ionizing radiation. 
  • Continued progress in the prevention of nail gun injuries among apprentice carpenters: what will it take to see wider spread injury reductions? 
  • Creating high reliability in health care organizations. 
  • Cultivating a Culture of Medication Safety in Prelicensure Nursing Students. 
  • Current issues and actions in radiation protection of patients. 
  • Dementia assessment and management. 
  • Developing process-support tools for patient safety: finding the balance between validity and feasibility. 
  • Developing the Safety of Atrial Fibrillation Ablation Registry Initiative (SAFARI) as a collaborative pan-stakeholder critical path registry model: a Cardiac Safety Research Consortium "Incubator" Think Tank. 
  • Development and implementation of a hospital-based patient safety program. 
  • Difficult venous access. 
  • Directed content analysis of Veterans Affairs policy documents: A strategy to guide implementation of a dementia home safety toolkit for Veterans to promote ageing in place. 
  • Disability and home hazards and safety practices in US households. 
  • Effect of free distribution of safety equipment on usage among motorcycle-taxi drivers in Tanzania--A cluster randomised controlled trial. 
  • Effective surgical safety checklist implementation. 
  • Engaging nurses in patient safety. 
  • Enhancing pediatric safety: assessing and improving resident competency in life-threatening events with a computer-based interactive resuscitation tool. 
  • Evaluation of a nurse-led safety program in a critical care unit. 
  • Evaluation of the Nursing Culture Assessment Tool for Pressure Injury Prevention: A Mixed-methods Study. 
  • Evaluation of the culture of safety: survey of clinicians and managers in an academic medical center. 
  • Exploring assumptions about teams. 
  • Exposure to Leadership WalkRounds in neonatal intensive care units is associated with a better patient safety culture and less caregiver burnout. 
  • Fall prevention among apprentice carpenters. 
  • Fire in the operating room. 
  • First, do no harm. 
  • Hazardous Drugs: Legislative and Regulatory Efforts to Improve Safe Handling 
  • Health System Redesign of Cardiac Monitoring Oversight to Optimize Alarm Management, Safety, and Staff Engagement. 
  • Health literacy and injury prevention behaviors among caregivers of infants. 
  • Image Gently campaign promotes radiation protection for children. 
  • Implementation and adoption of mechanical patient lift equipment in the hospital setting: The importance of organizational and cultural factors. 
  • Implementation of strategies to prevent and control the emergence and spread of antimicrobial-resistant microorganisms in U.S. hospitals. 
  • Implementation of surgical debriefing programs in large health systems: an exploratory qualitative analysis. 
  • Implementation of the World Health Organization surgical safety checklist, including introduction of pulse oximetry, in a resource-limited setting. 
  • Implementing a patient safety culture survey to identify and target process improvements in academic ambulatory urology practices: a multi-institutional collaborative. 
  • Implementing evidence-based medication safety interventions on a progressive care unit. 
  • Improving safety culture results in Rhode Island ICUs: lessons learned from the development of action-oriented plans. 
  • Improving the quality of rural nursing care. 
  • Increased risk for patient safety incidents in hospitalized older adults. 
  • Injury prevalence and safety habits of boda boda drivers in Moshi, Tanzania: A mixed methods study. 
  • Intensive care unit safety culture and outcomes: a US multicenter study. 
  • Interview by Marilyn H. Oermann with Suzanne Delbanco, PhD, executive director of The Leapfrog Group. 
  • Intrapersonal and Institutional Influences On Overall Perception of Radiation Safety Among Radiologic Technologists. 
  • Key Characteristics of Rehabilitation Quality Improvement Publications: Scoping Review From 2010 to 2016. 
  • Leadership Behavior Associations with Domains of Safety Culture, Engagement, and Health Care Worker Well-Being. 
  • Lessons learned from hospital Ebola preparation. 
  • Managing to improve quality: the relationship between accreditation standards, safety practices, and patient outcomes. 
  • Mandated treatment in the community for people with mental disorders. 
  • Measurement of quality and assurance of safety in the critically ill. 
  • Measuring safety culture in the ambulatory setting: the safety attitudes questionnaire--ambulatory version. 
  • Medical safety in the care of the person with end-stage kidney disease. 
  • Medication dispensing errors and potential adverse drug events before and after implementing bar code technology in the pharmacy. 
  • Medicolegal aspects of foot and ankle surgery. 
  • Medicolegal aspects of hip and knee arthroplasty. 
  • Medicolegal issues in sports medicine. 
  • Methodologies used in nursing research designed to improve patient safety. 
  • Minimum number of throws needed for knot security. 
  • Mining hidden knowledge for drug safety assessment: topic modeling of LiverTox as a case study. 
  • Multicenter assessment of burn team injury prevention knowledge. 
  • Nail gun injuries in apprentice carpenters: risk factors and control measures. 
  • National Survey of Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Medication Safety Practices. 
  • Neonatal intensive care unit safety culture varies widely. 
  • New standards for safe patient handling and mobility. 
  • Non-reporting of work injuries and aspects of jobsite safety climate and behavioral-based safety elements among carpenters in Washington State. 
  • Nurses' satisfaction with medication administration point-of-care technology. 
  • Nursing Assistants' Use of Personal Protective Equipment Regarding Contact With Excreta Contaminated With Antineoplastic Drugs. 
  • Nursing patient safety research in rural health care settings. 
  • Objective measures of adoption of patient lift and transfer devices to reduce nursing staff injuries in the hospital setting. 
  • Occupational injuries among aides and nurses in acute care. 
  • Panel discussion. Pediatric imaging in the emergency department. 
  • Participants' perspectives on safety monitoring in clinical trials. 
  • Partnership with patients: a prescription for ICU safety. 
  • Perceptions of Institutional Support for "Second Victims" Are Associated with Safety Culture and Workforce Well-Being. 
  • Perceptions of safety culture vary across the intensive care units of a single institution. 
  • Perspectives in quality: designing the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist. 
  • Physical assault among nursing staff employed in acute care. 
  • Planning the Safety of Atrial Fibrillation Ablation Registry Initiative (SAFARI) as a Collaborative Pan-Stakeholder Critical Path Registry Model: a Cardiac Safety Research Consortium "Incubator" Think Tank. 
  • Practice and quality improvement: successful implementation of TeamSTEPPS tools into an academic interventional ultrasound practice. 
  • Predictable and SuStainable Implementation of National Cardiovascular Registries (PASSION) infrastructure: A think tank report from Medical Device Epidemiological Network Initiative (MDEpiNet). 
  • President's page: The ACC encourages multi-pronged approach to radiation safety. 
  • Prevention of childhood unintentional injuries in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review. 
  • Prevention of traumatic nail gun injuries in apprentice carpenters: use of population-based measures to monitor intervention effectiveness. 
  • Promoting patient safety through peer review. 
  • Promoting patient safety. 
  • Providing feedback following Leadership WalkRounds is associated with better patient safety culture, higher employee engagement and lower burnout. 
  • Quantifying nursing workflow in medication administration. 
  • Radiation safety. 
  • Reducing health care hazards: lessons from the commercial aviation safety team. 
  • Reduction of Peripartum Racial and Ethnic Disparities: A Conceptual Framework and Maternal Safety Consensus Bundle. 
  • Revealing and resolving patient safety defects: the impact of leadership WalkRounds on frontline caregiver assessments of patient safety. 
  • SQUIRE Guidelines for reporting improvement studies in healthcare: implications for nursing publications. 
  • Safe Reintroduction of Cardiovascular Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic: From the North American Society Leadership. 
  • Safe handling: implementing hazardous drug precautions 
  • Safety Culture and Workforce Well-Being Associations with Positive Leadership WalkRounds. 
  • Safety in Hand Surgery: Eliminating Wrong-Site Surgery. 
  • Safety issues related to the electronic medical record (EMR): synthesis of the literature from the last decade, 2000-2009. 
  • Safety of union home care aides in Washington State. 
  • Safety, incentives, and the reporting of work-related injuries among union carpenters: "you're pretty much screwed if you get hurt at work". 
  • Sharing adverse drug event data using business intelligence technology. 
  • Should you close your waiting room? Addressing ED overcrowding through education and staff-based participatory research. 
  • Statewide Longitudinal Progression of the Whole-Patient Measure of Safety in South Carolina. 
  • Success of a Resident-Led Safety Council: A Model for Satisfying CLER Pathways to Excellence Patient Safety Goals. 
  • Surface Contamination With Antineoplastic Drugs on Two Inpatient Oncology Units. 
  • Surveillance of nail gun injuries by journeymen carpenters provides important insight into experiences of apprentices. 
  • Survey on patient safety climate in public hospitals in China. 
  • Sustained Impact of a Pediatric Resident-Led Patient Safety Council. 
  • Systematic reviews of workplace injury interventions: what are we missing? 
  • Tailoring "best-of-breed" safety classification for patient fall voluntary reporting. 
  • Targeted interventions improve shared agreement of daily goals in the pediatric intensive care unit. 
  • Teamwork Before and During COVID-19: The Good, the Same, and the Ugly…. 
  • The Correlation Between Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Safety Culture and Quality of Care. 
  • The Improvement Readiness scale of the SCORE survey: a metric to assess capacity for quality improvement in healthcare. 
  • The Psychological Safety Scale of the Safety, Communication, Operational, Reliability, and Engagement (SCORE) Survey: A Brief, Diagnostic, and Actionable Metric for the Ability to Speak Up in Healthcare Settings. 
  • The Safety Attitudes Questionnaire as a tool for benchmarking safety culture in the NICU. 
  • The Safety Attitudes Questionnaire: psychometric properties, benchmarking data, and emerging research. 
  • The Surgical Checklist: It Cannot Work If You Do Not Use It. 
  • The association between hospital characteristics and rates of preventable complications and adverse events. 
  • The associations between work-life balance behaviours, teamwork climate and safety climate: cross-sectional survey introducing the work-life climate scale, psychometric properties, benchmarking data and future directions. 
  • The effect of executive walk rounds on nurse safety climate attitudes: a randomized trial of clinical units[ISRCTN85147255] [corrected]. 
  • The impact of bispectral index monitoring on rates of propofol administration. 
  • The radiology perspective: needs and tools for management of life-threatening events. 
  • The role of animal models in evaluating reasonable safety and efficacy for human trials of cell-based interventions for neurologic conditions. 
  • Towards a collaborative filtering approach to medication reconciliation. 
  • Transbronchial Cryobiopsy for the Diagnosis of Interstitial Lung Diseases: CHEST Guideline and Expert Panel Report. 
  • Turning Data Into Information: Opportunities to Advance Rehabilitation Quality, Research, and Policy. 
  • Using Artificial Intelligence to Improve the Quality and Safety of Radiation Therapy. 
  • Using Web sites on quality health care for teaching consumers in public libraries. 
  • Validation of the Dutch language version of the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire (SAQ-NL). 
  • Vital signs: improving antibiotic use among hospitalized patients. 
  • Work-life balance behaviours cluster in work settings and relate to burnout and safety culture: a cross-sectional survey analysis. 
  • Young worker safety in construction: do family ties and workgroup size affect hazard exposures and safety practices? 
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  Keywords of People

  • Attarian, David Edward, Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Orthopaedic Surgery
  • Dement, John McCray, Professor Emeritus in Family Medicine and Community Health, Family Medicine & Community Health,Occupational & Environmental Medicine
  • Taekman, Jeffrey Marc, Professor Emeritus of Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology, Neuroanesthesia
  • Toth, Alison Patricia, Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Orthopaedic Surgery
  • Turner, David Ashley, Consulting Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, Critical Care Medicine