What are the effects of internal audits on quality and safety of hospital care?
Recruiting
- Conditions
- Patient safety, hospital, hospital care, effects, internal audits, internal audit system, auditing
- Registration Number
- NL-OMON20561
- Lead Sponsor
- Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center
- Brief Summary
/A
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 800
Inclusion Criteria
The included departments of the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre are:
1. Comprehensive and thus recognizable for other hospitals;
Exclusion Criteria
In this study we exclude the following criteria:
1. The eight ‘sub audits’ perform by experts (Medication Safety, Hygiene and Infection prevention, ARBO and milieu, Medical Devices, Sterile Medical Aids, Patient-centered, Education and Scientific Research);
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational non invasive
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Complications and adverse events.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 1. Patient safety culture;<br /><br>2. Team Climate;<br /><br>3. Experiences of patients;<br /><br>4. Standarized Mortality Rate (SMR);<br /><br>5. Unintended prolonged hospital stay;<br /><br>6. Learning effects of health care givers and department leaders.