Ziel der vorliegenden Masterarbeit ist die Entwicklung von Qualitätsindikatoren für den Prozess „Empfehlungen der Apotheke zur Weiterführung der Medikation“ im Klinikum Mutterhaus. Damit soll ein Instrument entwickelt werden, das patientenbezogene Dienstleistungen der Krankenhausapotheker an der intersektoralen Schnittstelle im Hinblick auf das Qualitätsziel Arzneimitteltherapiesicherheit messen und bewerten kann. Schwachstellen und Verbesserungspotentiale über den Verantwortungsbereich der Apotheke hinaus sollen identifiziert und in einen kontinuierlichen Verbesserungsprozess eingebracht werden können. Methodik: Zur Entwicklung der Qualitätsindikatoren wurde ein mehrstufiges Verfahren gewählt. Zunächst wurden die Qualitätsziele des Prozesses definiert und eine Prozessanalyse durchgeführt. Die Literaturrecherche auf nationaler und internationaler Ebene gab Anhaltspunkte zur Ableitung von Qualitätsindikatoren. Basierend auf der Prozessanalyse und der Literaturrecherche wurden Qualitätsindikatoren für den Prozess „Empfehlungen der Apotheke zur Weiterführung der Medikation“ entwickelt. Anhand einer retrospektiven Datenerhebung wurden die entwickelten Qualitätsindikatoren auf ihre Aussagekraft und Eignung geprüft. Der Prozess wurde mit Hilfe der Qualitätsindikatoren gemessen und bewertet. Schlussfolgerung: Mit Hilfe von fünf Qualitätsindikatoren-Sets kann der Prozess „Empfehlungen der Apotheke zur Weiterführung der Medikation“ umfassend untersucht werden. Die entwickelten Qualitätsindikatoren sind geeignet, die pharmazeutische Dienstleistung im Hinblick auf das Qualitätsziel Arzneimitteltherapiesicherheit zu messen und zu bewerten. Sie ermöglichen die Evaluation des Prozesses und zukünftiger Verbesserungsmaßnahmen. Anhand der Qualitätsindikatoren wird zukünftig ein Monitoring der Dienstleistung möglich sein. / Purpose: The aim of this thesis is the development of quality indicators for the process "recommendations of the pharmacy to continue patient’s medication" at Klinikum Mutterhaus. An instrument is to be developed that can measure and rate the patient-related services of the hospital pharmacist at the intersectoral interface in terms of quality target in medication safety. Weaknesses and potential improvements should be identified and incorporated into a continuous improvement process. Methods: A multistage process is selected for the development of the quality indicators. First, the quality objectives of the process are defined and a process analysis is performed. A literature review on national and international level shall provide evidence for the derivation of quality indicators. Based on the process analysis and the literature review the quality indicators for the "Recommendations of the pharmacy to continue patient`s medication” are developed. In a retrospective data collection, the developed quality indicators are tested for their validity and suitability. The process is finally measured by the quality indicators and evaluated. Conclusion: With the help of five quality indicator sets the process "recommendations of the pharmacy to continue patient’s medication" can be fully investigated. The developed quality indicators are suitable to measure and evaluate the process in terms of the quality target medication safety. So the evaluation of the process and future improvements are possible. On the basis of the quality indicators a monitoring of the process can be established in the future.

Der Beitrag untersucht auf der Grundlage neuer primärärztlicher Befunde die Versorgungsqualität bei der hinsichtlich Chronizität und Arbeitsausfall schwerwiegendsten Angsterkrankung, der Generalisierten Angststörung. Neben einer knappen Einführung in das Störungsbild werden die an über 20 000 Patienten in 558 Hausarztpraxen gewonnenen Kernbefunde der GAD-P-Studie (Generalisierte Angst und Depression in der Primärärztlichen Versorgung) zusammengefasst und Ansatzpunkte zur Verbesserung der Versorgungsqualität dieses selten adäquat behandelten Störungsbildes diskutiert. Insbesondere wird auf die zentrale Bedeutung einer sichereren diagnostischen Erkennung als Voraussetzung für therapeutische Verbesserungen hingewiesen. In Ergänzung zur Verbesserung bestehender Weiterbildungsangebote wird auf Arzt- und Patientenebene der breitere Einsatz bestehender Screeningverfahren, die Nutzung krankheitsspezifischer Patientenratgeber, sowie eine breitere Öffentlichkeitsarbeit zur Information über dieses bislang vernachlässigte, häufig chronisch verlaufende Krankheitsbild empfohlen. / Based on new empirical findings in a large-scale primary care study, the quality of care for the most chronic and debilitating anxiety problem, generalised anxiety disorder, is examined. Following a brief introduction of this disorder, the core findings of the GAD-P study (generalised anxiety and depression in primary care) with more than 20,000 patients of 558 family doctor practices are summarised and measures to improve the quality of care of patients with generalised anxiety disorder, a disorder which is rarely adequately treated, are discussed. This paper particularly emphasises the standard use of time-efficient diagnostic screening instruments, because improved recognition and diagnosis is the prerequisite for appropriate treatment. Further the role of the media to increase awareness of this disorder as well as patient education materials to improve compliance and to enhance treatment outcome effects are highlighted.

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / Nurses are a key component of the health care system and have the ability to provide innovative solutions to improve quality and safety for patients, while improving workplace conditions, and increasing recruitment and retention of nurses. Encouraging innovation behaviors among nurses is essential to improving health care. Innovation behaviors are defined as behavior from an employee toward developing new products, developing new markets, or improving business routines in their employing organization. The purpose of this descriptive study was to explore the relationships among individual and organizational characteristics and employee innovation behavior among nurses. The proposed model, The Framework for Study of Innovation Behaviors among Nurses, was developed based on the work by Kuratko, Hornsby, and Montagno and is specific to nursing innovation behaviors.

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Today, in 21st century healthcare at least 10% of hospitalised patients are subjected to some degree of unintended harm as a result of the treatment they receive. Despite the growing patient safety agenda there is little empirical evidence to demonstrate that patient safety is improving. Patient Safety Leadership Walk Rounds (PSLWR) were introduced to the UK, in March 2005, as a component of the Safer Patients Initiative (SPI), the first dedicated, hospital wide programme to reduce harm in hospital care. PSLWR are designed, to create a dedicated ‘conversation’ about patient safety, between frontline staff, middle level managers and senior executives. This thesis, explored the use of PSLWR, as a proactive mechanism to engage staff in patient safety discussion and detect patient harm within a Scottish healthcare system- NHS Tayside. From May 2005 to June 2006, PSLWR were held on a weekly basis within the hospital departments. A purposive sample, (n=38) of PSLWR discussions were analysed to determine: staff engagement in the process, patient safety issues disclosed; recognition of unsafe systems (latent conditions) and actions agreed for improvement. As a follow-up, 42 semi-structured interviews were undertaken to determine staff perceptions of the PSLWR system. A wide range of clinical and non-clinical staff took part (n=218) including medical staff, staff in training, porters and cleaners, nurses, ward assistants and pharmacists. Participants shared new information, not formally recorded within the hospital incident system. From the participants perspectives, PSLWR, were non threatening; were easy to take part in; demonstrated a team commitment, from the Board to the ward for patient safety and action was taken quickly as a result of the ‘conversations’. Although detecting all patient harm remains a challenge, this study demonstrates PSLWR can be a useful tool in the patient safety arsenal for NHS healthcare organisations.

The topic of this work is the administration of medicine following a face-to-face and telephone madication-related orders at hospitals. The methods used in the theoretic part of this work included both discussions with representatives of health care providers and the analysis of documents. Based on the description and analysis of the set-up of verbal madication-related orders as featured in the accreditation standards of four healthcare accreditation organisations and internal rules of five hospitals, the author of this work seeks to identify any possible risk elements of verbal orders, and to propose ways how to modify such parts of standards and rules so as to make the verbal ordination less risky. Whether or not the verbal medication-related orders at hospitals is a lege artis procedur depends first of all on the situation in which the verbal order is issued, on the authorization or qualifications of health employees who are involved in the implementation of such verbal order, and on the strict observance of procedures concerning the communication (including its recording into the medical documentation). Although verbal madication-related order represents risk arising from the ordinance's communication, forensic, or specialist consequence, no greater attention has been paid to them so far. There...

Heart disease including ischemic heart disease is the highest contributor to death and morbidity in the western world. The studies presented were conducted to determine possible pathways of protection of the heart against ischemia/reperfusion. We employed adenovirus mediated over-expression of Methionine sulfoxide reductase A (MsrA) in primary neonatal rat cardiac myocytes to determine the effect of this enzyme in protecting against hypoxia/reoxygenation. Cells transfected with MsrA encoding adenovirus and subjected to hypoxia/reoxygenation exhibited a 45% decrease in apoptosis as compared to controls. Likewise total cell death as determined by levels of Lactate Dehydrogenase (LDH) release was dramatically decreased by MsrA overexpression. The initial hypothesis that led to our testing sulindac was based on the fact that the S epimer of sulindac was a substrate for MsrA and that this compound might function as a catalytic anti-oxidant based on a reaction cycle that involved reductio n to sulindac sulfide followed by oxidation back to sulindac. To test this we examined the protective effect of sulindac in hypoxia re-oxygenation in both cardiac myocytes in culture and using a Langendorff model of myocardial ischemia. Using this model of myocardial ischemia we showed that pre-incubation of hearts with sulindac, or the S and R epimers of sulindac resulted in protection against cell death. We present several lines of evidence that the protective effect of sulindac is not dependent on the Msr enzyme system nor does it involve the well established role of sulindac as a Cyclooxygenase (COX) inhibitor. Numerous signaling pathways have been implicated in myocardial protective mechanisms, many of which require fluctuations in ROS levels as initiators or mediators. / Sulindac shows very good potential as a preconditioning agent that could induce tissue protection against oxidative damage.Blocking of preconditioning pathways by administration of the PKC blocker chelerythine abrogated the ischemic protection afforded by sulindac. Secondly, an end-effector of preconditioning, inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS),was found to be induced by greater than 5 fold after 48 h prior feeding sulindac. / by Ian Moench. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2008. / Includes bibliography. / Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2008. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Introdução: A segurança é considerada um pilar da qualidade dos cuidados à saúde e seu sucesso depende do comprometimento individual e coletivo. Os ensinamentos teórico-práticos transferidos aos alunos acerca dessa temática garantem melhoria na assistência prestada. Objetivo: Avaliar o impacto de intervenção sobre segurança do paciente no conhecimento e atitude dos alunos de medicina. Metodologia: Trata-se de uma análise do tipo intervenção, não randomizado, com grupo único de comparação - antes e depois -, prospectivo e exploratório, com abordagem quantitativa, realizado com 98 estudantes do curso do 6º ano de Medicina da Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto (FMRP-USP), São Paulo, Brasil. A coleta de dados ocorreu de janeiro a novembro de 2017, utilizando um questionário físico contemplando a caracterização dos alunos, bem como os aspectos conceituais e atitudinais sobre o erro humano e a segurança do paciente. Discussão: Como resultados, verificou-se o predomínio de estudantes do sexo masculino (62%) com a média de idade de 25,8 anos, enquanto, em relação aos aspectos conceituais evidenciou-se a melhoria do entendimento sobre a temática \"erro humano e segurança do paciente\", como se pode destacar nas assertivas \"Cometer erros na área da saúde é inevitável\", com média 4,0 na escala de Likert - mostrando que 70% dos alunos de medicina concordaram com a afirmação antes da intervenção educativa (pré-teste), sendo que, após a mesma (pós-teste), a média foi para 1,8 (68% discordaram). 42% dos estudantes (média de 3,6) ainda começaram concordando que \"para a análise do erro humano é importante saber as características individuais do profissional que cometeu o erro\", enquanto no pós-teste 59% deles (média de 2,3) discordaram. Conclusão: Conclui-se que os alunos, depois da intervenção educativa em sala de aula, conseguiram contemplar vários aspectos conceituais relacionados à segurança do paciente e às responsabilidades dos docentes e discentes frente à assistência. Porém, a intervenção educativa teve sua limitação quanto à evidência de mudanças nas atitudes dos alunos, uma vez que, a aprendizagem é considerada condição necessária, mas não suficiente, pois fatores contextuais e as características do próprio indivíduo podem influenciar a transferência efetiva do conhecimento, habilidades e atitudes para as atividades laborais. Nesse sentido, os próximos estudos podem levar em consideração a teoria dos fatores humanos, que não promete soluções instantâneas para a melhoria no cuidado prestado, mas pode fornecer uma riqueza de recursos para o progresso sustentável que minimizem erros e promovam uma cultura de segurança organizacional / Introduction: Safety is considered a pillar of the quality in health care and its success depends on both individual and collective commitment. The theoretical-practical teachings transferred to the students on this thematic assure improvements on the care provided. Aim: The aim is to evaluate the impact of interventions about patient\'s safety in the knowledge and actions of medical students. Methodology: It is an analysis from the interventional type, nonrandomized, with a single group of comparison - before and after-, prospective and exploratory, with quantitative approach, performed with 98 students of the 6º year of medical school from the Medical School of Ribeirão Preto (FMRP-USP), São Paulo, Brazil. The collection of data occurred from January to November 2017, using a questionnaire about the description of the students, as well as conceptual and attitudinal aspects about human error and patient\'s safety. Discussion: As results, there was a predominance of male students (62%) with average age of 25,8 years old, while, regarding to conceptual aspects, it was observed an improvement of the understanding about the thematic \"human error and patient\'s safety\", as it can be highlighted in the statement \"Making mistakes in health is inevitable\", with an average of 4,0 on Likert scale - showing that 70% of the medical students agreed with the statement before the educational intervention (pre-test), and after the intervention (after-test), the average dropped to 1,8 (68% disagreed). 42% of the students (average of 3,6 ) still began agreeing that \"for the analysis of the human error it is important to know individual characteristics of the professional who made the mistake\", while after-test 59% of them (average of 2,3) disagreed. Conclusions: It is concluded that after the educative intervention in classroom, they managed to contemplate several conceptual aspects related to patient\'s safety e to the responsibilities of the teachers and students involved on the assistance. However, the educative intervention had its limitation regarding the evidence of changes in the students\' attitudes, once that the learning process is considered a necessary condition, but it is not enough, due to contextual factors and individuals characteristics that may influence the effective transfer of knowledge, skills and attitudes to labor activities. So, the following essays may take into consideration the human factor theory, which doesn\'t promise instantaneous solutions to the improvement in the care provided, but may be able to provide a wealth of resources to sustainable progress that minimize errors and promote a culture of organizational safety

A mola propulsora desta investigação foi a baixa cobertura da Saúde da Família no município de Ribeirão Preto, assim como no estado de São Paulo, aliada à escassa produção sobre a análise do impacto da Estratégia em municípios de grande porte. A avaliação de serviços de saúde, e em específico, a auto-avaliação de uma equipe de Saúde da Família sobre o trabalho que realizam, oferecendo subsídios para incrementar a qualidade da assistência prestada à população adscrita, se constituem no foco desta investigação. Na busca de instrumentos para essa proposta de avaliação, conhecemos a Avaliação para a Melhoria da Qualidade (AMQ), proposta do Ministério da Saúde, de autoavaliação em diferentes níveis decisórios da Saúde da Família (gestores, coordenadores e equipes), com instrumentos de fácil compreensão e de respostas positivas ou negativas que levam ao processo de reflexão e auto-avaliação. A AMQ foi criada por experts em atenção primária e em avaliação de qualidade de serviços de saúde e validada posteriormente. Assim, o objetivo desta pesquisa foi analisar o processo de auto-avaliação desencadeado por uma equipe de Saúde da Família vinculada à Universidade de São Paulo, em Ribeirão Preto - SP, mediante a utilização da metodologia da AMQ. Tomando como opção a abordagem qualitativa para a realização da investigação pela natureza do objeto, foi selecionada uma das equipes de Saúde da Família dos Núcleos de Saúde da Família ligados à Universidade de São Paulo, tendo por critérios de inclusão: a anuência da equipe, sua disponibilidade de participação, a equipe encontrar-se completa e atendesse ao critério de antiguidade. A coleta de dados foi realizada de dezembro de 2009 a março de 2010, por meio de grupo focal, tendo como eixo temático a utilização da AMQ. Por meio da análise temática foram identificados os temas: construção e fortalecimento da Atenção Básica; a equipe na Saúde da Família - construção de possibilidades?; reflexões sobre o trabalho na unidade de Saúde da Família e a AMQ - possibilidades e críticas ao instrumento. A reflexão trouxe à tona os princípios da Atenção Básica possibilitando que a equipe repensasse as atividades que não são realizadas e aquelas que são, e que podem ser implementadas e qualificadas. Portanto, os princípios da Atenção Básica presentes no dia-a-dia do trabalho foram sendo identificados, apontados, compreendidos e valorizados pelos próprios trabalhadores permitindo repensar uma melhoria das condições de trabalho e conseqüentemente a qualificação do atendimento à população sob responsabilidade desta equipe. A análise também apontou as dificuldades e potencialidades que a equipe tem de ver a necessidade de articulação dos diversos fazeres e saberes e da troca de conhecimentos, proporcionando a oportunidade de olhar para o próprio trabalho e empreender um movimento de análise das atividades realizadas e como elas são realizadas, trazendo à tona vários aspectos do cotidiano do trabalho que, muitas vezes, não tinham sequer sido notados pela equipe. Olhar para o trabalho, para a rotina diária, para as divergências e convergências em relação ao trabalho desenvolvido, para os problemas enfrentados, para os sucessos alcançados, para o resgate do que deu certo em determinado momento do passado, para as intervenções propostas pela equipe, enfim, esta teve a possibilidade de retomar estes movimentos, e de alguma forma indicar elementos para o planejamento do trabalho na unidade visando à qualificação da atenção que prestam. / What motivated this study was the low coverage of the Family Health Strategy (FHS) in the city of Ribeirão Preto and in the state of São Paulo, Brazil coupled with the scarcity of studies addressing the impact of the FHS in large cities. This study evaluates health care services. Specifically it proposes a self-evaluation of a FHS team concerning their work, aiming to support improvements in the quality of care delivered to the ascribed population. Searching for instruments to be used in this evaluation, we found the Evaluation for Quality Improvement (AMQ) proposed by the Ministry of Health, a self-evaluating instrument for different levels of decision-making in the FHS (managers, coordinators and teams), easy to understand with positive or negative answers that lead to a process of reflection and selfevaluation. The AMQ was developed by experts in primary health care and in evaluating quality of health services and was later validated. Thus this study analyzes a self-evaluation process triggered by the FHS team linked to the University of São Paulo at Ribeirão Preto, SP through the AMQ methodology. Given the nature of the object of study, a qualitative approach was chosen. One of the FHS teams linked to the University of São Paulo was selected according to the following inclusion criteria: team\'s consent, its availability to participate, team was complete and met the seniority criterion. Data collection was carried out from December 2009 to March 2010 through focus group, whose thematic axis was the use of AMQ. The following themes were identified in the thematic analysis: constructing and strengthening Primary Care; the Family Health team - construction of possibilities?; reflections concerning the work in the FHS unit and the AMQ - possibilities and critiques to the instrument. The reflection revealed principles of Primary Care, which enabled the team to rethink activities that are not performed and those that are performed and which can be implemented and qualified. Hence, the Primary Care principles, present in daily practice, were identified, listed, understood, and valued by the workers themselves, which enable them to rethink the possibility of improving working conditions and consequently qualifying care delivered to the population under the responsibility of this team. The analysis also revealed difficulties and strengths and that the team needs to articulate several tasks and different types of knowledge and also exchange knowledge, enabling an opportunity to look at their own work and promote a movement to analyze activities performed and how they are performed, revealing several aspects of the work routine, which oftentimes are not even noticed by the team. Looking at the work, the daily routine, to divergences and convergences in relation to the work performed, to problems faced, achieved successes, to recover what have worked in a given point in the past, to interventions proposed by the team, and finally, it enabled the possibility to review these movements and somehow indicate elements for planning the work in the unit with a view to qualify care delivery.

O objetivo desta pesquisa foi avaliar a qualidade da Atenção Primária à Saúde (APS) de um município do interior de Minas Gerais. A avaliação dos serviços de saúde, por meio de instrumentos validados, é um dos modos de se verificar o cumprimento de atributos que qualificam estes serviços. Trata-se de uma pesquisa avaliativa, com delineamento transversal e abordagem quantitativa. A população deste estudo foi composta por 83 profissionais de nível fundamental, médio e superior das equipes da Estratégia de Saúde da Família, já que a APS local é formada somente por elas, e da gestão municipal. Foram aplicados dois instrumentos, sendo o primeiro de caracterização dos participantes, e o segundo o PCA-Tool Brasil versão profissional, que avalia oito atributos característicos da APS: acesso de primeiro contato, longitudinalidade, coordenação do cuidado integração do cuidado e sistemas de informações, integralidade dos serviços disponíveis e serviços prestados, orientação familiar e comunitária. A análise dos dados fundamentou-se na estatística descritiva, na confiabilidade do instrumento, ao aplicar o Alfa de Cronbach, e em testes de associações, utilizando o Teste Qui-quadrado de Pearson e Teste V de Cramer, ao relacionar o escore geral e as variáveis: escolaridade, função, local de trabalho, tempo desde a formatura, no serviço atual e de atuação na ESF. As normas e diretrizes da Resolução 466 / 2012 do Conselho Nacional de saúde nortearam os aspectos éticos deste estudo, que foi aprovado pelo Comitê de Ética em Pesquisa da Escola de Enfermagem de Ribeirão Preto da Universidade de São Paulo - EERP / USP. Quanto aos resultados, houve predomínio do sexo feminino, com ensino médio, idade de 33 anos, formação há oito anos para profissionais de nível superior e 3,7 anos de atuação no serviço atual. O escore geral do PCATool foi considerado alto, sendo que apenas o atributo \"acesso de primeiro contato\" ficou abaixo do ponto de corte de 6,6. O instrumento apresentou boa consistência interna e houve associação entre as variáveis estudadas. A APS apresentou conformação com os atributos propostos, exceto pelo acesso, considerado essencial para o ideal funcionamento dos serviços de cuidados primários. Os resultados reforçam a importância dos processos de avaliação e podem contribuir para futuras tomadas de decisão pelos atores envolvidos. / The objective of this research was to evaluate the quality of Primary Health Care (PHC) of a municipality in the interior of Minas Gerais. The evaluation of health services, through validated instruments, is one of the ways to verify compliance with attributes that qualify these services. It is an evaluative research, with a cross-sectional design and a quantitative approach. The population of this study was composed of 83 professionals at the elementary, middle and higher level of the Family Health Strategy teams, since the local PHC is only formed by them, and municipal management. Two instruments were applied, the first one to characterize the participants, and the second the PCA-Tool Brasil professional version, which evaluates eight characteristic features of APS: first contact access, longitudinality, care coordination - care integration and information systems, integrality of services available and services provided, family and community orientation. Data analysis was based on descriptive statistics, instrument reliability, Cronbach\'s alpha, and association tests using Pearson\'s Chisquare test and Cramer\'s V-test, by relating the general score and variables: schooling, function, place of work, time since graduation, in the current service and performance in the FHS. The present study was approved for the Ethics and Research Committee of the Ribeirao Preto School of Nursing University of Sao Paulo. Regarding the results, there was a predominance of females, with high school, age of 33 years, training for eight years for professionals of higher level and 3.7 years of performance in the current service. The overall PCATool score was considered high, and only the attribute \"first contact access\" was below the cut-off point of 6.6. The instrument had good internal consistency and there was an association between studied variables. APS presented compliance with the proposed attributes, except for access, considered essential for the optimal functioning of primary care services. The results reinforce the importance of evaluation processes and can contribute to future decision making by the actors involved.