Patient Safety: Residents' Viewpoints for Reducing Errors in Teaching Hospitals

• HAYANO Keiko

  Department of General Medicine, Kumamoto University Hospital

• OGAWA Hisao

  Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kumamoto University

• EGAMI Hiroshi

  Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kumamoto University

• MOTOMURA Kazuhisa

  Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Okinawa Chubu Hospital

• TOKUDA Yasuharu

  Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Okinawa Chubu Hospital

• ASHIMINE Kaoru

  Okinawa Naha Hospital

• HIGASHI Daisuke

  General Medicine, Japanese Red Cross Kumamoto Hospital

• AZUMA Satoru

  General Medicine, Asada General Hospital

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• 医療の安全―研修医の視点より見つめた医療の安全への意識調査―
• イリョウ ノ アンゼン ケンシュウイ ノ シテン ヨリ ミツメタ イリョウ ノ アンゼン エ ノ イシキ チョウサ
• Residents' Viewpoints for Reducing Errors in Teaching Hospitals
• 研修医の視点より見つめた医療の安全への意識調査

Abstract

Japan introduced a mandatory residency program in 2004. Teaching hospitals are now responsible for improving patient safety and the overall teaching environment. Questionnaires were sent to teaching hospitals in Kyushu to evaluate residents' work environments and to ask them about improving patient safety. Questionnaires asked about the work environment, experience with medical errors and adverse events, self-reported work conditions, personal anxiety levels about medical errors, and personal suggestions for decreasing medical errors. One hundred eight questionnaires were mailed, and 76 (70.3%) were returned complete and were analyzed. Most residents in Japan work long hours, feel extremely busy, and are anxious about medical errors; many of them reported personal involvement in medical errors or adverse events. Their suggestions to improve patient safety included improvement of the work environment, establishment of a resident support system, and better organization of medical charts and equipment. Considering residents' viewpoints for patient safety is important to help reduce errors in teaching hospitals.

Journal

• Igaku Kyoiku / Medical Education (Japan)

  Igaku Kyoiku / Medical Education (Japan) 37 (2), 77-83, 2006

  Japan Society for Medical Education

Keywords

• Patient safety
• residency program
• work environment
• adverse event
• potential adverse event

Details

• CRID: 1390001204097007488
• NII Article ID: 10018364102
• NII Book ID: AN00013280
• DOI: 10.11307/mededjapan1970.37.77
• ISSN: 21850453
• ISSN: 03869644
• NDL BIB ID: 7910035
• Web Site: https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/books/R000000004-I7910035
• Web Site: https://search.jamas.or.jp/link/ui/2006147945
• Text Lang: ja
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