… safe care and creating a  culture of safety .   … Hedsköld M, Sachs MA, Rosander T, et al. Acting between guidelines and …

This editorial discusses priority areas for maintaining and promoting the well-being of the healthcare workforce during the COVID-19 pandemic. The authors discuss the importance of providing adequate personal protective equipment (PPE), supporting basic daily needs (e.g., provision of in-hospital food stores), ensuring frequent and visible communication, supporting mental and emotional well-being, addressing ethical concerns, promoting wellness, and showing gratitude for staff.

… researched this phenomenon, was interviewed by AHRQ WebM&M in 2011. …

Based on discussions from a 22-person expert panel, this study described four contextual domains judged as important for patient safety practices. The domains included: safety culture, teamwork, and leadership involvement; structural organizational characteristics; external factors (e.g., incentive systems); and availability of implementation and management tools.

Research on patient safety has dramatically increased in the past decade, but despite this, the progress of improving safety remains slow. Significant controversy exists about how safety interventions should be evaluated, and even apparently successful interventions may not be generalizable to all settings. This AHRQ-sponsored consensus statement by leaders in the safety field defines a framework for rigorous assessment of safety interventions. This framework calls for investigators to use change theory to develop their projects; provide adequate details of the intervention, implementation process, and the context in which the intervention was conducted; and evaluate both the expected outcomes and potential unintended consequences of the intervention. The accompanying editorial (see link below) discusses the challenges of conducting research in complex settings, and takes note of existing guidelines and resources to help clinicians write and interpret articles about patient safety interventions.

The implementation of an electronic health record at a Swedish hospital is analyzed through structured interviews, to determine the factors that predicted implementation success.

The authors discuss the development, implementation, and sustainability of rapid response team initiatives.

This AHRQ-sponsored consensus panel defined a classification scheme for patient safety practices, including intervention characteristics as well as the context of the intervention and potential implementation issues.

… his use of change theories in an AHRQ WebM&M interview . …