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Interventions to Increase Patient Safety in Long-Term Care Facilities—Umbrella Review

Introduction: Patient safety in long-term care is becoming an increasingly popular subject in the scientific literature. Organizational problems such as shortages of medical staff, insufficient numbers of facilities or underfunding increase the risk of adverse events, and aging populations in many c...

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Autores principales: Świtalski, Jakub, Wnuk, Katarzyna, Tatara, Tomasz, Miazga, Wojciech, Wiśniewska, Ewa, Banaś, Tomasz, Partyka, Olga, Karakiewicz-Krawczyk, Katarzyna, Jurczak, Justyna, Kaczmarski, Mateusz, Dykowska, Grażyna, Czerw, Aleksandra, Cipora, Elżbieta
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9691014/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36430073
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192215354
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author Świtalski, Jakub
Wnuk, Katarzyna
Tatara, Tomasz
Miazga, Wojciech
Wiśniewska, Ewa
Banaś, Tomasz
Partyka, Olga
Karakiewicz-Krawczyk, Katarzyna
Jurczak, Justyna
Kaczmarski, Mateusz
Dykowska, Grażyna
Czerw, Aleksandra
Cipora, Elżbieta
author_facet Świtalski, Jakub
Wnuk, Katarzyna
Tatara, Tomasz
Miazga, Wojciech
Wiśniewska, Ewa
Banaś, Tomasz
Partyka, Olga
Karakiewicz-Krawczyk, Katarzyna
Jurczak, Justyna
Kaczmarski, Mateusz
Dykowska, Grażyna
Czerw, Aleksandra
Cipora, Elżbieta
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description Introduction: Patient safety in long-term care is becoming an increasingly popular subject in the scientific literature. Organizational problems such as shortages of medical staff, insufficient numbers of facilities or underfunding increase the risk of adverse events, and aging populations in many countries suggests that these problems will become more and more serious with each passing year. The objective of the study is to identify interventions that can contribute to increasing patient safety in long-term care facilities. Method: A systematic review of secondary studies was conducted in accordance with the Cochrane Collaboration guidelines. Searches were conducted in Medline (via PubMed), Embase (via OVID) and Cochrane Library. The quality of the included studies was assessed using AMSTAR2. Results: Ultimately, 10 studies were included in the analysis. They concerned three main areas: promoting safety culture, reducing the level of occupational stress and burnout, and increasing the safety of medication use. Promising methods that have an impact on increasing patient safety include: preventing occupational burnout of medical staff, e.g., by using mindfulness-based interventions; preventing incidents resulting from improper administration of medications, e.g., by using structured methods of patient transfer; and the use of information technology that is more effective than the classic (paper) method or preventing nosocomial infections, e.g., through programs to improve the quality of care in institutions and the implementation of an effective infection control system. Conclusions: Taking into account the scientific evidence found and the guidelines of institutions dealing with patient safety, it is necessary for each long-term care facility to individually implement interventions aimed at continuous improvement of the quality of care and patient safety culture at the level of medical staff and management staff.
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spelling pubmed-96910142022-11-25 Interventions to Increase Patient Safety in Long-Term Care Facilities—Umbrella Review Świtalski, Jakub Wnuk, Katarzyna Tatara, Tomasz Miazga, Wojciech Wiśniewska, Ewa Banaś, Tomasz Partyka, Olga Karakiewicz-Krawczyk, Katarzyna Jurczak, Justyna Kaczmarski, Mateusz Dykowska, Grażyna Czerw, Aleksandra Cipora, Elżbieta Int J Environ Res Public Health Systematic Review Introduction: Patient safety in long-term care is becoming an increasingly popular subject in the scientific literature. Organizational problems such as shortages of medical staff, insufficient numbers of facilities or underfunding increase the risk of adverse events, and aging populations in many countries suggests that these problems will become more and more serious with each passing year. The objective of the study is to identify interventions that can contribute to increasing patient safety in long-term care facilities. Method: A systematic review of secondary studies was conducted in accordance with the Cochrane Collaboration guidelines. Searches were conducted in Medline (via PubMed), Embase (via OVID) and Cochrane Library. The quality of the included studies was assessed using AMSTAR2. Results: Ultimately, 10 studies were included in the analysis. They concerned three main areas: promoting safety culture, reducing the level of occupational stress and burnout, and increasing the safety of medication use. Promising methods that have an impact on increasing patient safety include: preventing occupational burnout of medical staff, e.g., by using mindfulness-based interventions; preventing incidents resulting from improper administration of medications, e.g., by using structured methods of patient transfer; and the use of information technology that is more effective than the classic (paper) method or preventing nosocomial infections, e.g., through programs to improve the quality of care in institutions and the implementation of an effective infection control system. Conclusions: Taking into account the scientific evidence found and the guidelines of institutions dealing with patient safety, it is necessary for each long-term care facility to individually implement interventions aimed at continuous improvement of the quality of care and patient safety culture at the level of medical staff and management staff. MDPI 2022-11-21 /pmc/articles/PMC9691014/ /pubmed/36430073 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192215354 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Świtalski, Jakub
Wnuk, Katarzyna
Tatara, Tomasz
Miazga, Wojciech
Wiśniewska, Ewa
Banaś, Tomasz
Partyka, Olga
Karakiewicz-Krawczyk, Katarzyna
Jurczak, Justyna
Kaczmarski, Mateusz
Dykowska, Grażyna
Czerw, Aleksandra
Cipora, Elżbieta
Interventions to Increase Patient Safety in Long-Term Care Facilities—Umbrella Review
title Interventions to Increase Patient Safety in Long-Term Care Facilities—Umbrella Review
title_full Interventions to Increase Patient Safety in Long-Term Care Facilities—Umbrella Review
title_fullStr Interventions to Increase Patient Safety in Long-Term Care Facilities—Umbrella Review
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title_short Interventions to Increase Patient Safety in Long-Term Care Facilities—Umbrella Review
title_sort interventions to increase patient safety in long-term care facilities—umbrella review
topic Systematic Review
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9691014/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36430073
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192215354
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