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BMC Health Services Research
Published in: BMC Health Services Research 1/2010

Open Access 01-12-2010 | Research article

Do specialty registrars change their attitudes, intentions and behaviour towards reporting incidents following a patient safety course?

Authors: José D Jansma, Dorien LM Zwart, Ian P Leistikow, Cor J Kalkman, Cordula Wagner, Arnold B Bijnen

Published in: BMC Health Services Research | Issue 1/2010

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Abstract

Background

Reporting incidents can contribute to safer health care, as an awareness of the weaknesses of a system could be considered as a starting point for improvements. It is believed that patient safety education for specialty registrars could improve their attitudes, intentions and behaviour towards incident reporting. The objective of this study was to examine the effect of a two-day patient safety course on the attitudes, intentions and behaviour concerning the voluntary reporting of incidents by specialty registrars.

Methods

A patient safety course was designed to increase specialty registrars' knowledge, attitudes and skills in order to recognize and cope with unintended events and unsafe situations at an early stage. Data were collected through an 11-item questionnaire before, immediately after and six months after the course was given.

Results

The response rate at all three points in time assessed was 100% (n = 33). There were significant changes in incident reporting attitudes and intentions immediately after the course, as well as during follow-up. However, no significant changes were found in incident reporting behaviour.

Conclusions

It is shown that patient safety education can have long-term positive effects on attitudes towards reporting incidents and the intentions of registrars. However, further efforts need to be undertaken to induce a real change in behaviour.
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Metadata
Title
Do specialty registrars change their attitudes, intentions and behaviour towards reporting incidents following a patient safety course?
Authors
José D Jansma
Dorien LM Zwart
Ian P Leistikow
Cor J Kalkman
Cordula Wagner
Arnold B Bijnen
Publication date
01-12-2010
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
BMC Health Services Research / Issue 1/2010
Electronic ISSN: 1472-6963
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-10-100

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