Patient safety culture in General Practice: investigation of the effects of the Frankfurt Patient Safety Matrix on safety culture in general practices
Not Applicable
Completed
- Conditions
- patient safety culture in general practiceMethods for improvement of safety culture
- Registration Number
- DRKS00000145
- Lead Sponsor
- Institut für AllgemeinmedizinJohann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 60
Inclusion Criteria
General practices, solo or group practices in the south of hesse
Practices of physicians for general practice, internal medicine or physicians without specialisation
Size of the practice team: at least three persons
Exclusion Criteria
Practice already participated in the pilot study of this project or in another project with Frankfurter Patientensicherheitsmatrix
pediatric practice with no participation of general physicianers or internists
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Patient safety indicator A systematic error management is established in the surgery and in use. after 12 months time, consisting of eleven criteria. Each criterion will be judged if present. The end point consists of a summary score of up to eleven (ordinal scale).<br>(Measured by interview and self-assessment: a practice nurse and a physician will be interviewed in the surgery)
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Another eleven patient safety indicators after 12 months time: resuscitation training, drugs for basic life support, analysis of critical incidents, complaints management, drug allergies, medication plan, chronic drug prescription, oral anticoagulation, laboratory investigation and results, influenza vaccination (Measured by interview and self-assessment: a practice nurse and a physician will be interviewed in the surgery) || patient safety climate after 12 months time (Frankfurt questionnaire regarding saftey climate in general practices, FraSiK to each member of the practice team) || Quality of error management after 12 months time (assessment of documentation of critical incidents applying an adapted formative review of Significant Event Analyses SEA (McKay J, Murphy DJ, Bowie P, Schmuck ML, Lough M, Eva KW (2007). Development and testing of an assessment instrument for the formative peer review of significant event analyses. Qual Saf Health Care 16:150-3)