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Cultures for improving patient safety through learning: the role of teamwork.
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The learning that can take place within organisations and the cultural change necessary to encourage it are discussed and teams and team leaders are focused on as potentially powerful forces for bringing about the management of patient safety and better quality of care.Abstract:
Improvements in patient safety result primarily from organisational and individual learning. This paper discusses the learning that can take place within organisations and the cultural change necessary to encourage it. It focuses on teams and team leaders as potentially powerful forces for bringing about the management of patient safety and better quality of care.read more
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'My five moments for hand hygiene': a user-centred design approach to understand, train, monitor and report hand hygiene.
Hugo Sax,Benedetta Allegranzi,Ilker Uçkay,Elaine Larson,Elaine Larson,J. Boyce,J. Boyce,Didier Pittet,Didier Pittet +8 more
TL;DR: 'My five moments for hand hygiene' describes the fundamental reference points for healthcare workers in a time-space framework and designates the moments when hand hygiene is required to effectively interrupt microbial transmission during the care sequence and provides a solid basis to understand, teach, monitor and report hand hygiene practices.
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Role understanding and effective communication as core competencies for collaborative practice
Esther Suter,Julia Arndt,Nancy Arthur,John T. Parboosingh,Elizabeth Taylor,Siegrid Deutschlander +5 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that understanding and appreciating professional roles and responsibilities and communicating effectively emerged as the two perceived core competencies for patient-centred collaborative practice and should be the primary focus of student and staff education aimed at increasing collaborative practice skills.
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Interprofessional collaboration among nurses and physicians: making a difference in patient outcome.
TL;DR: The results of the fourteen RCTs included were mixed, but all but one study reported at least one statistically significant improvement in outcome following interventions based on interprofessional collaboration.
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Differences in safety climate between hospital personnel and naval aviators.
TL;DR: Hospitals may need to make substantial changes to achieve a safety climate consistent with the status of high-reliability organizations, according to results of safety climate survey questions from health care respondents with those from naval aviation, a high- Reliability organization.
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Illusions of team working in health care
Michael West,Joanne Lyubovnikova +1 more
TL;DR: It is argued that the prevalence of the term "team" in healthcare makes the synthesis and advancement of the scientific understanding of healthcare teams a challenge and future research needs to better define the fundamental characteristics of teams in studies in order to ensure that findings based on real teams, rather than pseudo-like groups, are accumulated.
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