Hospital staff surveying

Bootham Park Hospital (2002). Annual Staff Survey of York Health Services NHS Trust. York, UK Occupational Health Department, Bootham Park Hospital. 

Itoh, K., Abe, T. and Andersen, H.B. 2005. A questionnaire-based survey on healthcare safety culture from six thousand Japanese hospital staff Organisational, professional and department/ward differences. InR. Tartagha,... 

Paper based surveys are more useful than web based surveys for hospital staff. Significant local support is required to increase participation in the survey. Safety culture factors explained more variance in safety behaviour measures than they did variance of worker and patient injury rates. 

The draft smvey was then eognitively tested with over a dozen hospital staff. Cognitive testing involved asking individuals to complete the survey and provide comment about their answers in one-on-one, in-person or telephone interviews. The purpose of cognitive testing was to assess respondent eomprehension and interpretation of items, to determine how they arrived at their answers and to find... 

The Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture examines patient safety culture from a hospital staff perspective and allows hospitals to assess their safety culture and track changes over time. Hospitals that administer the patient safety culture survey can voluntarily submit their data to the Comparative Database, a resource for hospitals wishing to compare their survey results to similar types of hospitals (AHRQ Publication No. 04-0041). 

Shapira, Z., Marganitt, B., Roziner, L, Schohet, T., Bar, Y., She-mer, J. (1991). Willingness of staff to report to their hospital duties following an unconventional missile attack A statewide survey. Israel Journal of Medical Sciences, 27(11-12), 704-711. 

The pharmacist collaborates with nursing, medical staff, and hospital administration to prepare the ICU for the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) survey and responds to any deficiencies identified. 

Survey major metropolitan hospitals on supplies of antidotes, drugs, ventilators, personal protective equipment, decontamination capacity, mass-casualty planning and training, isolation rooms for infectious disease, and familiarity of staff with the effects and treatment of chemical and biological weapons. 

In this section, results obtained in a case study (Itoh and Andersen 2008, 2010) will be reviewed to illustrate the contribution of safety culture to safety outcome. In a case study, a questioimaire-based survey concerning staff reactions after the adverse event introduced in the last section, was conducted in addition to the safety culture survey. At the same time, incident reports for three years (2004-06) submitted by nurses were obtained from one of the hospitals (Hospital M) that participated in the safety culture survey. Hospital M was a private, acute-type general hospital, located in Tokyo. This hospital covered almost all clinical specialties and, at the time of the survey in 2006, it had about 500 inpatient beds, 160 full-time doctors and 360 full-time nurses. Nurses belonged to any one of 18 clinical work units 14 inpatient wards, an outpatient clinic, operating room, kidney centre, and medical examination unit. 

Itoh, K. and Andersen, H.B. 2008. A national survey on healthcare safety culture in Japan Analysis of 20,000 staff responses from 84 hospitals. Proceedings of the International Conference on Healthcare Systems Ergonomics and Patient Safety, HEPS 2008. Strasbourg, France, June 2008 (CD-ROM). 

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