Contingency theory: Patient safety

Autor: Laskienė, Skaistė, Marmienė, Loreta, Indriūnaitė, Ingrida
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Contingency in the Education, Art and Sport: international multidisciplinary conference : Charles University, Faculty of Education, Prague, Czech Republic, May 12, 2016 / Editors: Anna Hogenová, Naděžda Pelcová, David Rybák, Prague : Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Pedagogická fakulta, 2017, p. 112-119
Popis: According to the World Health Organization (WHO), every year millions of patients throughout the world suffer injuries from unsuafe medical practice and nursing that lead to disabilities or death of patients. Since health care is rarely provided by sole health care practitioners, safe patient health care depends not only on the knowledge, skills and conduct of medical personnel, but also on how employees are capable of working in a team in a specific working environment and how they communicate with each other. Organisation of work at health care institutions includes organisational and human dimensions, therefore some scholars emphasise organisation management issues and analyse organisational culture and management quality (Hearld et al., 2008; Mannion et al., 2009; Nielsen, 2014), others emphasise human factor (Reason, 200; Carthey, Clarke, 2010; Carayon et al., 2015) and focus on human resources, relations, safe behavour, and team work (Battles, King, 2010; Valentine et al., 2015), and finally other scientists try to combine both these aspects and provide concepts of patient safety or patient safety culture (Wagner et al, 2013); Halligan, Zecevic, 2011; Zwart et al., 2011; Simmer et al., 2010). There is no highly responsible areas associated with an increased risk of intervention (complex diagnostic and intervention procedures, prescription of medicines, laboratory and instrumental examinations), complex relations and interactions among health care practitioners, and compatibility between leadership and teamwork, and medical technologies and desire to ensure patient safety. [...].
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