Intervention leadership assessment

The difficulty in assessing the effectiveness of patient safety interventions is the same as that for all programme evaluations it is difficult to find rigorous studies that measure programme effectiveness quantitatively. There have been a number of recent reviews of patient safety initiatives and their effectiveness. Morello et al. (2012) reviewed over 2,000 articles and found only 21 studies meeting their inclusion criteria for study rigour. They concluded that there is some evidence to support the theory that leadership walk rounds and multi-faceted unit-based programmes may have a positive impact on patient safety chmate. 

Senior leadership should understand and lead the intervention. Leaders should set measureable objectives and gather basehne measures, inform leaders of the overall SIF prevention initiative, and assess senior safety leadership capabihty and provide feedback. Tie to roles in leading the intervention. 

We have been working on organizational safety—the broad relationship between an organization s culture and leadership and its safety outcomes—since 1979. We were asked to assess NASA s culture using the tools we have developed over the years and to recommend an intervention strategy that would address the issues the board had found. We quickly discovered a reluctance... 

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