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Background:
Elucidating nurses' adaptation to changes in the early stage of an infectious disease epidemic is necessary to promote nurses' coping with and adapting to situations in which new infectious diseases are predicted periodically.
Aim:
To explore nurses' adaptation to changes in COVID-19 wards in South Korea.
Methods:
In-depth intervie...
Quantitative and qualitative research explore various social phenomena using different methods. However, there has been a tendency to treat quantitative studies using complicated statistical techniques as more scientific and superior, whereas relatively few qualitative studies have been conducted in the medical and healthcare fields. This review ai...
Background:
Patient safety is a crucial indicator of health care quality. It is necessary to check the subjective perception of patient safety from the patient's point of view as a consumer of healthcare services. To identify patients' experiences of safety and the themes that constitute the patients' feeling of safety during hospitalization.
Met...
Purpose:We investigated physicians' responses to a series of clinical vignettes consisting of patient safety incidents, with and without disclosure of patient safety incidents (DPSI).Methods: An anonymous survey was conducted to investigate physicians’ responses to the DPSI via online communities of physicians, and additional participants were recr...
Background:
In Korea, the safety culture is led by national policy. How the policy ensures a patient safety culture needs to be investigated. This study aimed to examine the way in which physicians and nurses regard, understand, or interpret the patient safety-related policy in the hospital setting.
Methods:
In this qualitative study, we conduct...
Background: Pediatric nurses are particularly vulnerable to moral distress and turnover due to frequent experiences with patient death combined with limited pediatric palliative resources and related support. Objective: This study examined pediatric nurses' experiences of pediatric patient death, moral distress, and turnover intention and identifie...
Objectives:
This study explored the working experience of patient safety managers (PSMs) in small- and medium-sized hospitals (SMHs).
Methods:
A qualitative study comprising 3 focus group discussions (6 people each) was conducted. Patient safety managers working in SMHs-hospitals with 100 to 300 beds-were included. Researchers analyzed the trans...
This study identified the trends in end-of-life care and nursing through text network analysis. About 18,935 articles published until September 2019 were selected through searches on PubMed, Embase, Cochrane, Web of Science, and Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature. For topic modeling, Latent Dirichlet Allocation (K = 8) was app...
Objectives: This study reviewed the current major issues of New Health Technology Assessment Program (nHTA) in Korea and suggested ways to promote evidence-based approaches to nHTA.
Methods: Data covered the list of all applications to nHTA from 2007 when nHTA was introduced to September 30, 2019. A total of 2539 application cases were analyzed. In...
Background: Patient safety issues in medical institutions have received worldwide attention. Nurses play a pivotal role in providing health care at the bedside and the interception of adverse events (AEs). A knowledge of contributory factors for these AEs is vital to individuals, institutional procedures, and also national policy. The goals of this...
The present study investigated physicians' perceptions regarding the need for, effects of, and barriers to disclosure of patient safety incidents (DPSI). An anonymous online questionnaire survey was conducted to investigate physicians' perception regarding DPSI, in particular of when DPSI was needed in various situations and of methods for facilita...
Objectives
The aim of this study was to investigate the scope and severity of the second victim problem among nurses by examining the experiences and effects of patient safety incidents (PSIs) on them.
Participants/setting
492 nurses who had experienced PSIs and provide direct care in South Korean medical institutions.
Design
A cross-sectional st...
Objectives:
This study aimed to explore nurses' perceptions regarding disclosure of patient safety incidents.
Methods:
An anonymous online survey was conducted, and results were compared with those of the general public using the same questionnaire in a previous study.
Results:
Among 689 nurses, 96.8% of nurses felt major errors should be disc...
Background:
Medical professionals who experience patient safety incidents (PSIs) are vulnerable to emotional pain and other difficulties; such individuals are referred to as "second victims." This study quantitatively examines the characteristics of physicians' experiences of PSIs, along with the consequent difficulties and levels of post-traumati...
Objective:
The study aimed to investigate the impacts of patient safety incident (PSI) experienced by the general public.
Methods:
We conducted a self-administered online survey, in which we examined the following experiences of the patients and the caregivers: the level of harm induced by PSIs, difficulties due to PSIs, posttraumatic stress dis...
Background: Physicians are in the most critical position vis-à-vis disclosure of patient safety incidents (DPSI), and improper perceptions of DPSI among them could be a major barrier to proper execution of DPSI in clinical practice. The present study investigated physicians’ perceptions regarding the need for, effects of, and barriers to DPSI.
Meth...
Purpose:
The role of registered nurses is expanding in scope as the healthcare paradigm shifts from acute, hospital-based care to community and population-based care. Given this paradigm shift, this study explores the legal aspects of the role of a registered nurse.
Methods:
We used document analysis for extracting laws and legal orders related...
Background
Healthcare professionals who experience trauma due to patient safety incidents can be considered second victims, and they also suffer from various difficulties. In order to support second victims, it is necessary to determine the circumstances of the incidents in question, along with the symptoms that the victims are experiencing and the...
Objectives:
This study conducted a survey to examine how the general public in Korea perceives patient engagement for patient safety and to identify vulnerable groups and contents priorities of patient engagement education for the general public.
Methods:
We developed a questionnaire based on previous studies and conducted one-on-one interviews...
Background:
Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) involves severe pain and it is difficult to identify the exact cause or pathogenesis. Therefore, there are controversies regarding legal issues related to the establishment of damage in medical malpractice lawsuits involving CRPS. This study aimed to analyze malpractice lawsuits involving CRPS, whi...
Objectives:The purpose of this preliminary study was to identify the nurses’ perception regarding disclosure of patient safety incidents (DPSI) and to evaluate the effectiveness of education for DPSI.
Methods:DPSI education was conducted for nurses majoring in clinical nurse specialist at an university. Before and after the education, the nurses ma...
Purpose
The objective of this study was to provide a descriptive understanding of the characteristics of malpractice litigation related to urology by examining court cases.
Materials and Methods
A total of 6,074 court cases related to medical malpractice litigation filed between 2005 and 2010 were received from the Lower Courts, the Appellate Cour...
