Intervention-related demands: Criteria for an operating room-specific patient classification. A qualitative focus group studyAbstract:Background: Optimal workforce deployment in the operating room-setting has gained high ...
Frequency of medication preparation and medication administration errors in a Swiss university hospital: a prospective observational studyAbstract. Background: Prospective observational studies from Swiss university ...
Analysis of adverse events as a contribution to safety culture in the context of practice developmentAbstract. Background: Analysing adverse events is an effective patient safety measure. Aim: We show, how clinical nurse ...
Reporting systems in long term care: heading for implementationAbstract. Background: There is a need for discussing influencing factors of the implementation of critical incident reporting systems in long term care. ...
Everything safe? – Risk situations in advanced home care from the point of view of ventilated patients and their relativesAbstract. Background: The number of home mechanically ventilated (HMV) patients has been growing for ...
Patient safety in the care of mentally ill people in Switzerland: Action plan 2016Abstract. Background: Patient safety in mental healthcare has not attracted great attention yet, although the burden and the prevalence of ...
“Watchful? For sure!” – Health professionals as family carers and their roles in patient safetyAbstract. Background: Little is known about family caregivers in the context of adverse events that occur during the care of ...
Types and frequencies of complications associated with midline catheters and PICCs in a South Tyrolean district hospital: a retrospective cohort studyAbstract.Background: Specialized registered nurses ...
Safety Walk Rounds – Clinical unit visits with a focus on patient safetyAbstract. Background: Safety Walk Rounds are a promising strategy to promote the safety culture and optimising patient safety. The purpose of this ...
Patient handover from anaesthesia to postanaesthesia unit: An analysis of the current situation in three Swiss hospitalsAbstract:Background: Patient handovers carry a risk of inadequate or missing communication of important ...
The incidence of adverse drug events (ADE) in hospitalized patients and ambulatory care is high. Next to human suffering they cause considerable additional cost and a prolonged length of stay. The reduction of ADE incidence is badly needed. Measures to ...
Polypharmacy and Neuroleptics in Swiss Nursing Homes in the Years 2019 and 2020Abstract. We present data from 92404 clinical assessments from 619 Swiss nursing homes . The data were collected in 2019 and 2020 from over 65-...
The Use of Checklists in MedicineAbstract. This mini-review highlights the success story of checklists in perioperative medicine. It provides a background to the introduction of medical checklists, the WHO Guidelines for ...