Improvement of Pennsylvania healthcare consumers' awareness of patient safety
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Series Title(s):
- Pennsylvania patient safety advisory
- Author(s):
- Munn, Jesse, author
- Contributor(s):
- Pennsylvania. Patient Safety Authority, issuing body. ECRI (Organization), issuing body. Institute for Safe Medication Practices, issuing body.
- Publication:
- [Harrisburg, Pa.] : Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority, [2014]
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Awareness Consumer Health Information Patient Participation -- statistics & numerical data Patient Safety -- statistics & numerical data Health Care Surveys Humans Pennsylvania United States
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- In the past, the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority has sponsored questions in annual, statewide polls of Pennsylvania consumers; specifically, questions to measure consumers' engagement in patient safety practices (e.g., confirmation of patient identity). In 2013, 604 randomly selected participants were surveyed about their respective engagement in 10 consumer patient safety practices. The Authority first contributed questions about these select practices for the 2006 poll. Authority analysts compared participant responses to the respective polls and observed statistically significant increases in likelihood of engagement in 8 of the 10 practices. Analysts also reviewed consumers' inclinations to engage in these practices. The 2013 participants were most inclined toward asking for an explanation for understanding, questioning unfamiliar drugs or reasons for procedures, and seeking second opinions about healthcare, and participants were least inclined toward asking about handwashing. Overall, results indicate that the patient safety movement in Pennsylvania is raising awareness of patient safety among Pennsylvania healthcare consumers.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY-NC-ND license. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (8 pages))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101630044 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101630044