Effectiveness of patient safety training in equipping medical students to recognise safety hazards and propose robust interventions
Autor: | K. Moylan, Barbara J Boshard, Susan D. Scott, Karen R. Cox, J. W. Gosbee, K. C. Dellsperger, Leslie W. Hall |
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Rok vydání: | 2010 |
Předmět: |
Clinical clerkship
Students Medical Medical psychology Quality management Attitude of Health Personnel Leadership and Management media_common.quotation_subject education Psychological intervention Blame Patient safety Nursing Humans Medicine Curriculum General Nursing media_common Academic Medical Centers Teamwork Missouri Medical Errors business.industry Health Policy Clinical Clerkship Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Clinical Competence Patient Safety business |
Zdroj: | Quality and Safety in Health Care. 19:3-8 |
ISSN: | 1475-3901 1475-3898 |
DOI: | 10.1136/qshc.2008.031781 |
Popis: | Objectives In an effort to improve patient safety attitudes and skills among third-year medical students, two patient safety training sessions were added to their curriculum, complementing a previously implemented second-year curriculum on quality improvement, patient safety and teamwork. Methods Safety attitudes and skills were assessed before and after students completed the medicine clerkship training and were compared with historical controls. Students identified and reported on observed safety events, with their reports matched to event type and harm score with contemporaneous safety reports from University of Missouri's Patient Safety Network (PSN). Comparisons were assessed by five internal safety experts using criteria for report submission “worthiness”, blame tone, target of blame and presence/strength of proposed solutions. Results Students completing the third-year safety booster conferences expressed statistically higher comfort levels with identifying the cause of an error than did the student control group (p |
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