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Do patients and relatives have different dispositions when challenging healthcare professionals about patient safety? Results before and after an educational program.
Rodrigo-Rincon I, Irigoyen-Aristorena I, Tirapu-Leon B, et al. Do patients and relatives have different dispositions when challenging healthcare professionals about patient safety? Results before and after an educational program. J Patient Saf. 2022;18(1):e45-e50. doi:10.1097/pts.0000000000000703.
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April 22, 2020
Rodrigo-Rincon I, Irigoyen-Aristorena I, Tirapu-Leon B, et al. J Patient Saf. 2022;18(1):e45-e50.
Efforts to engage patients and family in patient safety are nearly universal.This study explored whether patients and relatives have differing willingness to challenge healthcare professions about patient safety. Using a pre-post design, the authors examined whether a training program (including a brief video, brochure and questionnaire) impacted the patient or family members’ ‘willingness to challenge’ healthcare workers. The researchers found that patients and family members had similar willingness to challenge, and willingness was high for all safe practices analyzed except for hand hygiene.
