Factors influencing patient safety in Sweden: Perceptions of patient safety officers in the county councils

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Nygren, Mikaela ^a   Roback, Kerstin ^a   Öhrn, Annica ^a   Rutberg, Hans ^a   Rahmqvist, Mikael ^a   Nilsen, Per ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Communication; Incident reporting; Patient involvement; Patient safety; Risk analysis; Root cause analysis; Safety culture

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; NURSE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT SAFETY; PHYSICIAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS; SAFETY; SWEDEN;

ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; NURSES; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT SAFETY; PHYSICIANS; QUESTIONNAIRES; ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; STATE MEDICINE; SWEDEN;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84873426807     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-13-52     Document Type: Article

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