SynthesisInternational journal of health care quality assurance2019
Safety attitudes in hospital emergency departments: a systematic review.
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- Patient Safety Culture in Latin American Hospitals: A Systematic Review with Meta-Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- Safety culture in paediatric emergency departments: a cross-sectional study among healthcare professionals.BMJ open · 2025Article
- Revelation of the mediation role of moral sensitivity on safety attitude and personality traits among critical care nurses.BMC nursing · 2025Article
- Patient safety attitudes and their predictors among emergency healthcare providers in a military medical city in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Article
- Instruments for Patient Safety Assessment: A Scoping Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Behavioral sciences applied to acute care teams: a research agenda for the years ahead by a European research network.BMC health services research · 2024Article
- The Perception of the Patient Safety Climate by Health Professionals during the COVID-19 Pandemic-International Research.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Clinician attitude towards safety in medication management: a participatory action research study in an emergency department.BMJ open · 2021Article
- Brick in the wall? Linking quality of debriefing to participant learning in team training of interprofessional students.BMJ simulation & technology enhanced learning · 2021Article
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4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
purposeThe purpose of this paper is to perform and report a systematic review of published research on patient safety attitudes of health staff employed in hospital emergency departments (EDs). DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH: An electronic search was conducted of PsychINFO, ProQuest, MEDLINE, EMBASE, PubMed and CINAHL databases. The review included all studies that focussed on the safety attitudes of professional hospital staff employed in EDs.
findingsOverall, the review revealed that the safety attitudes of ED health staff are generally low, especially on teamwork and management support and among nurses when compared to doctors. Conversely, two intervention studies showed the effectiveness of team building interventions on improving the safety attitudes of health staff employed in EDs. RESEARCH LIMITATIONS/IMPLICATIONS: Six studies met the inclusion criteria, however, most of the studies demonstrated low to moderate methodological quality. ORIGINALITY/VALUE: Teamwork, communication and management support are central to positive safety attitudes. Teamwork training can improve safety attitudes. Given that EDs are the "front-line" of hospital care and patients within EDs are especially vulnerable to medical errors, future research should focus on the safety attitudes of medical staff employed in EDs and its relationship to medical errors.
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