Quality improvement initiative to reduce serious safety events and improve patient safety culture

Pediatrics

Volumn 130, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Muething, Stephen E ^a   Goudie, Anthony ^a,b   Schoettker, Pamela J ^a   Donnelly, Lane F ^a,c   Goodfriend, Martha A ^a   Bracke, Tracey M ^a   Brady, Patrick W ^a   Wheeler, Derek S ^a   Anderson, James M ^a   Kotagal, Uma R ^a  

^a CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b ARKANSAS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c NEMOURS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Patient safety; Quality improvement; Safety culture

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE CONCEPTS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERIOUS SAFETY EVENT; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

CHILD; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; INSERVICE TRAINING; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL ERRORS; OHIO; ORGANIZATIONAL OBJECTIVES; PATIENT SAFETY; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY;

EID: 84864501919     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2011-3566     Document Type: Article

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