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Safety Attitudes In Hospital Emergency Departments: A Systematic Review, Naif Alzahrani, Russell Jones, Amir Rizwan, Mohamed E. Abdel-Latif
Safety Attitudes In Hospital Emergency Departments: A Systematic Review, Naif Alzahrani, Russell Jones, Amir Rizwan, Mohamed E. Abdel-Latif
Research outputs 2014 to 2021
PURPOSE: The purpose of this paper is to perform and report a systematic review of published research on patient safety attitudes of health staff employed in hospital emergency departments (EDs).
DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH: An electronic search was conducted of PsychINFO, ProQuest, MEDLINE, EMBASE, PubMed and CINAHL databases. The review included all studies that focussed on the safety attitudes of professional hospital staff employed in EDs.
FINDINGS: Overall, the review revealed that the safety attitudes of ED health staff are generally low, especially on teamwork and management support and among nurses when compared to doctors. Conversely, two intervention studies showed the effectiveness of …