Patient Safety
Moving the Bar in Prison Health Care Standards
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11022784 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marc F Stern (University of Washington), Robert B Greifinger, Jeff Mellow (0000-0002-8074-4557) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 100 |
| Issue | 11 |
| Pages | 2103-2110 |
| Publication date | 2010-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048 |
| Publisher | American Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2105/ajph.2009.184242 |
| PMID | 20864714 |
| PMCID | PMC2951964 |
| OpenAlex | W1965335888 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 5 |
Improvements in community health care quality through error reduction have been slow to transfer to correctional settings. We convened a panel of correctional experts, which recommended 60 patient safety standards focusing on such issues as creating safety cultures at organizational, supervisory, and staff levels through changes to policy and training and by ensuring staff competency, reducing medication errors, encouraging the seamless transfer of information between and within practice settings, and developing mechanisms to detect errors or near misses and to shift the emphasis from blaming staff to fixing systems. To our knowledge, this is the first published set of standards focusing on patient safety in prisons, adapted from the emerging literature on quality improvement in the community
Criminology · Forensic engineering · Health care · Medical education · Medical emergency · MEDLINE · Near miss · Occupational safety and health · Patient safety · Political science · Prison · Quality (philosophy) · Set (abstract data type) · Computer Science · Engineering · Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints · Medical Malpractice and Liability Issues · Medicine · Nursing · Patient Safety and Medication Errors · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,29 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2025 (14) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |