Certified Nursing Assistants' Perceptions of Nursing Home Patient Safety Culture: Is There a Relationship to Clinical Outcomes?

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 11-20

  Bonner, Alice F ^a,b   Castle, Nicholas G ^c   Men, Aiju ^c   Handler, Steven M ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Long Term Care Foundation   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

certified nursing assistant; daily restraint use; falls; hospital survey of patient safety culture; nursing home; Patient safety culture; pressure ulcers

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CERTIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; DECUBITUS; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FALLING; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HOSPITAL BED UTILIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; NURSING ASSISTANT; NURSING COMPETENCE; NURSING HOME; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROFIT; RANDOM SAMPLE; SCORING SYSTEM;

EID: 57849084752     PISSN: 15258610     EISSN: 15389375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamda.2008.06.004     Document Type: Article

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