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Canadian study examines barriers to medication error reporting & how to successfully overcome them ow.ly/9yrLW #ptsafety #medsafety 6:20 AM Mar 9th via HootSuite
Sr leadership support, engagement of entire organization & measurement key factors to affect work-life balance & #ptsafety... 6:30 AM Mar 8th via HootSuite
Organizational & cultural factors act as barriers or promoters of initiatives in care improvement & #ptsafety ow.ly/9vrDx 6:33 AM Mar 7th via HootSuite
Nurses understand & have the skills to improve care processes & influence the #ptsafety culture within an organization ow.ly/9tYiC 6:46 AM Mar 6th via HootSuite
Study investigates patients (and families) & their understanding of problems & failures in healthcare. ow.ly/9skii #ptsafety 6:37 AM Mar 5th via HootSuite
Should patients be included on root cause analysis (RCA) teams? Pros & cons discussed. ow.ly/9pwY0 #ptsafety 6:52 AM Mar 2nd via HootSuite
Survey of factors related to nurse’s perception of patient safety mostly associated w/ organizational culture ow.ly/9nZMo #ptsafety 6:47 AM Mar 1st via HootSuite
UK pharmacists using electronic documentation for proactive med recommendations in critical care unit ow.ly/9mtHG #medsafety... 7:04 AM Feb 29th via HootSuite
Placing pts on clinically inappropriate wards constitutes a ‘latent factor’ which may underlie adverse events ow.ly/9kUGe #ptsafety 6:38 AM Feb 28th via HootSuite
Reporting system for collecting human factors reports could help with improving healthcare quality & #ptsafety ow.ly/9jlRI 6:39 AM Feb 27th via HootSuite
Quality work life balance & #ptsafety culture? Do healthcare workers have enough time to do their jobs adequately? ow.ly/9gCW1 6:28 AM Feb 24th via HootSuite
Leadership key influencer of organizational safety culture, likelihood of errors occurring & their management ow.ly/9fazT #ptsafety 7:00 AM Feb 23rd via HootSuite
Asking the Unaskable – Thinking the Unthinkable - New Longwoods article co-authored by Hugh MacLeod CEO CPSI ow.ly/9dBP3 #ptsafety 6:07 AM Feb 22nd via HootSuite
Paper concludes no guarantee time spent on professional networks focused on care quality & #ptsafety will improve pt care... 6:49 AM Feb 21st via HootSuite
RT @janicemccallum @dhfreedman:How getting data to nurses' smartphones can make a big difference in healthcare ow.ly/9c8z0 #mhealth 6:46 AM Feb 21st via HootSuite
Six Sigma & root cause analysis used to reduce patient transfer time from general med to critical care areas ow.ly/98e8l #ptsafety 6:52 AM Feb 17th via HootSuite
Improving posthospital transitions needs to include improvemnt in discharge preparation of informal caregivers. ow.ly/96LHd... 6:41 AM Feb 16th via HootSuite
Health literacy recognized as important in the complexity of modern health. Study aims to define #healthlit ow.ly/95gy9 #ptsafety 6:31 AM Feb 15th via HootSuite
Root cause analysis (RCA) used in psychiatric units to identify causes of falls & effective falls reduction strategies... 6:18 AM Feb 14th via HootSuite
Review focuses on discharge interventions to improve #ptsafety during transition from hospital to home for elderly ow.ly/92dNP... 6:14 AM Feb 13th via HootSuite

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Bio #Librarian for the Canadian Patient Safety Institute, tweeting out all the newest research and literature on patient safety, quality, & healthcare improvement!