The hazards of hospitalization

Schimmel, Elihu M.

doi:10.1136/qhc.12.1.58

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“…For example, it is possible that apprentices who experienced back pain are less satisfied with workplace safety practices and, as a result, are more likely to report poor organizational safety practice for their workplaces. Future study with a prospective design assessing organizational safety practice from administrative data (Zhan and Miller 2003) or from surveys directly asking supervisor about their safety practice (Huang et al 2012) could be useful to investigate the temporal association.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Contractor-, steward-, and coworker-safety practice: associations with musculoskeletal pain and injury-related absence among construction apprentices

Kim

Dutra

Okechukwu

2013

Int Arch Occup Environ Health

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Objectives This paper sought to assess organizational safety practices at three different levels of hierarchical workplace structure and to examine their association with injury outcomes among construction apprentices. Methods Using a cross-sectional sample of 1,775 construction apprentices, three measures of organizational safety practice were assessed: contractor-, steward-, and coworker-safety practice. Each safety practice measure was assessed using three similar questions (i.e., on-the-job safety commitment, following required or recommended safe work practices, and correcting unsafe work practices); the summed average of the responses ranged from 1 to 4, with a higher score indicating poorer safety practice. Outcome variables included the prevalence of four types of musculoskeletal pain (i.e., neck, shoulder, hand, and back pain) and injury-related absence. Results In adjusted analyses, contractor-safety practice was associated with both hand pain (OR: 1.27, 95 % CI: 1.04, 1.54) and back pain (OR: 1.40, 95 % CI: 1.17, 1.68); coworker-safety practice was related to back pain (OR: 1.42, 95 % CI: 1.18, 1.71) and injury-related absence (OR: 1.36, 95 % CI: 1.11, 1.67). In an analysis that included all three safety practice measures simultaneously, the association between coworker-safety practice and injury-related absence remained significant (OR: 1.68, 95 % CI: 1.20, 2.37), whereas all other associations became non-significant. Conclusions This study suggests that organizational safety practice, particularly coworker-safety practice, is associated with injury outcomes among construction apprentices.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Contractor-, steward-, and coworker-safety practice: associations with musculoskeletal pain and injury-related absence among construction apprentices

Kim

Dutra

Okechukwu

2013

Int Arch Occup Environ Health

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“…Numerous studies have been carried out to quantify these errors. Schimmel (2003) noted that approximately 20% of patients admitted to a university hospital suffered some sort of iatrogenesis 1 , a fifth of which had resulted in serious complications. Steel et al (1981) raised this figure to 36%, one quarter of which were serious.…”

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confidence: 98%

Deploying Information Technology and Continuous Control Monitoring Systems in Hospitals to Prevent Medication Errors

Escobar‐Rodríguez¹,

Monge-Lozano

Romero-Alonso³

et al. 2012

HIM J

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The serious repercussions of healthcare errors on patient safety have led hospitals to deploy information technology and continuous control monitoring systems to prevent them. Hospitals are moving away from traditional paper-based systems and focusing on designing new systems that prevent errors, using information technologies to catalyse the process re-engineering. This paper presents a case study that analyses the effect of computerised physician order entry and automated unit-based medication storage and distribution systems on the drug ordering and delivery process. It is concluded that information technology and continuous control monitoring systems have led to significant process re-engineering in the sequential stages of the drug ordering and delivery system. The new systems have also provided the opportunity to improve information available. This is an exploratory case study and the conclusions drawn from it offer possible routes for future research in this field.

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“…Numerous studies have been carried out to quantify these errors. Schimmel (1964Schimmel ( , 2003 notes that approximately 20 percent of patients admitted to a university hospital suffer some sort of iatrogenesis, 1 a fifth of which result in serious complications. Steel et al (1981) raise this figure to 36 percent, one quarter of which are serious.…”

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confidence: 99%

Acceptance of E-Prescriptions and Automated Medication-Management Systems in Hospitals: An Extension of the Technology Acceptance Model

Escobar‐Rodríguez

Monge-Lozano

Romero-Alonso

2012

Journal of Information Systems

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The serious repercussions of heath care errors on patient safety have led hospitals to deploy corrective information technologies. Hospitals are moving away from traditional paper-based systems and focusing on designing new methods that reduce errors, using information technology to catalyze the reengineering process.This paper analyzes the intention of health care personnel (physicians and nurses) to use e-prescriptions and automated medication-management systems (EPAMMS), identifying influencing factors. Understanding these factors provides the opportunity to explore which actions might be carried out to boost adoption by potential users.The theoretical grounding for this research is the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). TAM specifies the causal relationships between perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, and actual usage behavior. The proposed model has seven constructs; we have generated 11 hypotheses from connections among these seven constructs. These constructs include perceived compatibility, perceived usefulness to enhance control systems, training, and perceived risks. Our results provide support for a number of relationships in the hypothesized model.

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The hazards of hospitalization

Cited by 98 publications

References 5 publications

Contractor-, steward-, and coworker-safety practice: associations with musculoskeletal pain and injury-related absence among construction apprentices

Contractor-, steward-, and coworker-safety practice: associations with musculoskeletal pain and injury-related absence among construction apprentices

Deploying Information Technology and Continuous Control Monitoring Systems in Hospitals to Prevent Medication Errors

Acceptance of E-Prescriptions and Automated Medication-Management Systems in Hospitals: An Extension of the Technology Acceptance Model

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