Journal article
Patient safety education 20 years after the Institute of Medicine report: Results from a cross-sectional national survey
- Abstract:
-
Objectives Educating healthcare professionals in patient safety is essential to achieving sustainable improvements in care. This study aimed to identify the key constituents of patient safety education alongside its facilitators and barriers from a frontline perspective.
Methods An electronic survey was sent to 592 healthcare professionals and educators in patient safety education in the United Kingdom. Two independent reviewers conducted a thematic analysis of the free-text data. Themes focused on effective content, learning practices and facilitators and barriers to patient safety education.
Results Of 592 individuals completing the survey, 545 (92%) submitted analyzable responses. Interrater reliability of coding was high with Cohen k value of 0.86. Participants endorsed experiential and interactive learning as ideal modalities for delivery and expressed a need for content to be based on real clinical cases and tailored to the needs of the learners. The most commonly mentioned facilitators were standardization of methods and assessment (49%), dedicated funding (21%), and culture of openness (20%). Staffing problems and high workload (41%) and lack of accessibility of training (23%) were identified as primary barriers of efficacy and uptake.
Conclusions This study identified key factors to the success of patient safety education in terms of content and delivery alongside facilitators and barriers. Future curricula developers and interventions should improve standardization, funding, culture, and access so as to optimize education programs to enhance patient safety.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
Actions
Access Document
- Files:
-
-
(Preview, Supplementary materials, pdf, 57.5KB, Terms of use)
-
(Preview, Accepted manuscript, pdf, 277.4KB, Terms of use)
-
- Publisher copy:
- 10.1097/pts.0000000000000676
Authors
- Publisher:
- Wolters Kluwer Health
- Journal:
- Journal of Patient Safety More from this journal
- Volume:
- 17
- Issue:
- 8
- Pages:
- e1884-e1888
- Publication date:
- 2020-03-11
- DOI:
- EISSN:
-
1549-8425
- ISSN:
-
1549-8417
- Language:
-
English
- Keywords:
- Pubs id:
-
1096038
- Local pid:
-
pubs:1096038
- Deposit date:
-
2020-03-23
- ARK identifier:
Terms of use
- Copyright holder:
- Wolters Kluwer Health
- Copyright date:
- 2020
- Rights statement:
- Copyright © 2020 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc.
- Notes:
- This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Wolters Kluwer Health at https://doi.org/10.1097/pts.0000000000000676
If you are the owner of this record, you can report an update to it here: Report update to this record