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postgraduate thesis: As a critical behavior to improve quality and patient safety in health care : speaking up!
Title | As a critical behavior to improve quality and patient safety in health care : speaking up! |
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Issue Date | 2016 |
Publisher | The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) |
Citation | Nacioglu, A.. (2016). As a critical behavior to improve quality and patient safety in health care : speaking up!. (Thesis). University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR. |
Abstract | Background
Joint Commission predicted that 80% of the serious safety events were occurring due to miscommunications between professionals. Speaking up is one of the critical behaviors of patient safety that display an important role for improving quality and patient safety in healthcare.
Objectives
Objectives of this study are assessing the effectiveness of speaking up for patient safety, identifying the influencing factors of speaking up, evaluating the effectiveness of speaking up training and finding enablers of speaking up.
Methods
This study was done to identify literature about ‘speaking up’ behaviors to improve safety outcomes via considering both patient and provider perspectives. PubMed was used to find English articles that relevant to both patient and provider’s speaking up behaviors that mainly focused to demonstrate its impact on patient safety outcomes. Data was extracted and analyzed to find influencing factors and recommended voicing up behavior that display important role for improvement in quality and safety of healthcare.
Results
53 relevant articles were identified in 83 articles. Those 53 articles consist of 4 literature reviews, 3 RCTs, 8 cohorts, 1 case control, 34 cross sectional studies and 3 reports. This study is the first study about not just identifying factors that influencing speaking up behaviors among providers but also including factors of patients’ voicing up behaviors for safety. This study is also providing some ‘enablers of speaking up behaviors’ which may help healthcare leaders and professionals’ decision making process for quality and safety improvements in their organization. |
Degree | Master of Public Health |
Subject | Communication in medicine Medical care - Quality control Medical care - Safety measures |
Dept/Program | Public Health |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/237254 |
HKU Library Item ID | b5805161 |
DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Nacioglu, Ahmet | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-12-28T02:01:59Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2016-12-28T02:01:59Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2016 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Nacioglu, A.. (2016). As a critical behavior to improve quality and patient safety in health care : speaking up!. (Thesis). University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR. | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/237254 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Background Joint Commission predicted that 80% of the serious safety events were occurring due to miscommunications between professionals. Speaking up is one of the critical behaviors of patient safety that display an important role for improving quality and patient safety in healthcare. Objectives Objectives of this study are assessing the effectiveness of speaking up for patient safety, identifying the influencing factors of speaking up, evaluating the effectiveness of speaking up training and finding enablers of speaking up. Methods This study was done to identify literature about ‘speaking up’ behaviors to improve safety outcomes via considering both patient and provider perspectives. PubMed was used to find English articles that relevant to both patient and provider’s speaking up behaviors that mainly focused to demonstrate its impact on patient safety outcomes. Data was extracted and analyzed to find influencing factors and recommended voicing up behavior that display important role for improvement in quality and safety of healthcare. Results 53 relevant articles were identified in 83 articles. Those 53 articles consist of 4 literature reviews, 3 RCTs, 8 cohorts, 1 case control, 34 cross sectional studies and 3 reports. This study is the first study about not just identifying factors that influencing speaking up behaviors among providers but also including factors of patients’ voicing up behaviors for safety. This study is also providing some ‘enablers of speaking up behaviors’ which may help healthcare leaders and professionals’ decision making process for quality and safety improvements in their organization. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | HKU Theses Online (HKUTO) | - |
dc.rights | The author retains all proprietary rights, (such as patent rights) and the right to use in future works. | - |
dc.rights | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. | - |
dc.subject.lcsh | Communication in medicine | - |
dc.subject.lcsh | Medical care - Quality control | - |
dc.subject.lcsh | Medical care - Safety measures | - |
dc.title | As a critical behavior to improve quality and patient safety in health care : speaking up! | - |
dc.type | PG_Thesis | - |
dc.identifier.hkul | b5805161 | - |
dc.description.thesisname | Master of Public Health | - |
dc.description.thesislevel | Master | - |
dc.description.thesisdiscipline | Public Health | - |
dc.description.nature | published_or_final_version | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.5353/th_b5805161 | - |
dc.identifier.mmsid | 991020896569703414 | - |