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Journal Article > Study
Nursing accreditation system and patient safety.
Teng CI, Shyu YI, Dai YT, Wong MK, Chu TL, Chou TA. J Nurs Manag. 2012;20:311-318.
The self-reported rate of patient safety problems was lower for Taiwanese nurses who had completed a formal accreditation program.
Journal Article > Review
Assessment of transparency of cost estimates in economic evaluations of patient safety programmes.
Fukuda H, Imanaka Y. J Eval Clin Pract. 2009;15:451-459.
Through analyzing studies that evaluated cost, efficiency, and effectiveness of patient safety initiatives, this review found a limited ability to use such economic data across environments. The authors recommend criteria to better structure future assessments to enable findings to be more transferable.
Tools/Toolkit > Multi-use Website
Safe Surgery Saves Lives: The Second Global Patient Safety Challenge.
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Geneva, Switzerland: WHO World Alliance for Patient Safety; June 25, 2008.
This initiative provides a surgical safety checklist and related educational and training materials to encourage international adoption of a core set of safety standards. Implementation of this World Health Organization's checklist has resulted in dramatic reductions in surgical mortality and complications across diverse international hospitals. Surgical checklists have now become one of the clearest success stories in the patient safety movement, although some have described challenges to effective implementation. Dr. Atul Gawande discussed the history of checklists as a quality and safety tool in his book, The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right.
Journal Article > Study
Factors associated with system-level activities for patient safety and infection control.
Fukuda H, Imanaka Y, Hirose M, Hayashida K. Health Policy. 2008;89:26-36.
In this Japanese study, larger and more profitable hospitals were able to devote more resources to patient safety and infection control efforts.
Journal Article > Study
Economic evaluations of maintaining patient safety systems in teaching hospitals.
Fukuda H, Imanaka Y, Hirose M, Hayashida K. Health Policy. 2008;88:381-391.
Teaching hospitals in Japan incurred significant costs during implementation of patient safety systems.
Journal Article > Study
Cost of hospital-wide activities to improve patient safety and infection control: a multi-centre study in Japan.
Fukuda H, Imanaka Y, Hayashida K. Health Policy. 2008;87:100-111.
Japanese hospitals spent the equivalent of up to 40 full-time employees' salaries on patient safety–related activities yearly, with smaller hospitals incurring a proportionally larger financial burden.
Newsletter/Journal
Global Patient Safety Challenge NewsAlert.
World Health Organization.
This publication shares news related to the World Health Organization's Global Patient Safety Challenge.
Journal Article > Commentary
Medical malpractice in the People's Republic of China: the 2002 regulation on the handling of medical accidents.
Harris DM, Wu CC. J Law Med Ethics. 2005;33:456-477.
The authors explain the 2002 regulation of medical malpractice in China in the context of previous laws and identify lessons that the United States and China can learn from each other.