Objective: To provide clinicians with evidence-based strategies to optimize the support of the
family of critically ill patients in the ICU. Methods: We used the Council of Medical Specialty …

Developing a culture of safety is a core element of many efforts to improve patient safety and
care quality. This systematic review identifies and assesses interventions used to promote …

Background There is widespread interest in measuring healthcare provider attitudes about
issues relevant to patient safety (often called safety climate or safety culture). Here we report …

Purpose: To organize the properties of safety culture addressed by many studies and to
develop a conceptual culture of safety model. Design and Methods: A comprehensive …

Purpose To determine the effectiveness of patient safety culture strategies to improve
hospital patient safety climate. Data sources Electronic search of the Cochrane Library …

Objective: To examine the association between registered nurse (RN) staffing and patient
outcomes in acute care hospitals. Study Selection: Twenty-eight studies reported adjusted …

Context.—Problems with health care worker (HCW) well-being have become a leading
concern in medicine given their severity and robust links to outcomes like medical error …

Background A growing body of peer-reviewed studies demonstrate the importance of safety
culture in healthcare safety improvement, but little attention has focused on developing a …

Background The study of safety culture and its relationship to patient care have been
challenged by variation in definition, dimensionality and methods of assessment. This …

Objectives “Failure to rescue”(FTR) is the failure to prevent a death resulting from a
complication of medical care or from a complication of underlying illness or surgery. There is …