Assessment of residual gastric volume by ultrasound prior to upper endoscopy: a prospective cohort study.

Purpose: Pulmonary aspiration is an adverse event with high morbidity and mortality. Despite fasting for > 8 hr, some patients still have residual gastric volume and are thus at risk of aspiration. We aimed to determine the accuracy of gastric ultrasound in assessing residual gastric content in patients undergoing upper gastrointestinal endoscopy.

Experience of the patient regarding their safety in the hospital environment.

Objectives: to analyze the factors that can impact patients' experience concerning safety-related measures in the hospital setting.

Methods: this qualitative, descriptive, and exploratory study was conducted with patients and their family members at a hospital in southern Brazil. Semi-structured interviews were carried out using the Critical Incident Technique between January and February 2022.

Tools for the investigation of adverse events: scoping review.

Objective: To map, in the literature, the risk management tools aimed at investigating health adverse events.

Method: Scoping review according to the Joanna Brigss Institute, with acronym PCC (Population: hospitalized patients, Concept: tools for the investigation of adverse events, and Context: health institutions) carried out in MEDLINE (OVID), EMBASE, LILACS, Scopus, CINAHL, and gray literature.

Results: The search totaled 825 scientific productions, 31 of which met the objective of the study, which consisted of 27 scientific articles and 4 expert consensus.

Evaluation of patient safety culture in a private general hospital: a case study in Brazil.

Purpose: The purpose is to assess the patient safety culture perceived by healthcare and administrative staff in a Brazilian hospital and examine whether education and experience are related to positive perceptions.

Design/methodology/approach: A descriptive-analytical case study was carried out at Ernesto Dornelles Hospital, a private Brazilian institution. The Brazilian version of the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture was used to assess the perceptions of 618 participants, of whom 315 worked in healthcare assistance and 303 in administrative services.

Patient safety in an endoscopy unit: an observational retrospective analysis of reported incidents.

Introduction: Patient safety is a serious public health with serious implications on morbidity, mortality, and quality of life of patients, in addition to negatively affecting the public image of healthcare institutions and professionals. It requires further investigation, especially in specialties lacking published data, such as endoscopy.

Objective: To analyze patient safety incidents reported in a gastrointestinal endoscopy unit of a tertiary hospital in southern Brazil.

Characteristics of falls with damage to hospitalized patients.

Objective: Describe the characteristics of falls in patients with damage, their risk factors and injuries.

Method: Retrospective and longitudinal study of 260 records of falls with damage of adult patients in clinical and surgical units of a general hospital, from September 2012 to June 2017. Data were collected in May 2018 from the electronic fall and electronic record research instrument, and the statistical analysis was described.

Patient safety nucleus: the pathway in a general hospital.

Objective: To describe the experience of implementing the patient safety nucleus and the strategies developed to ensure safer care.

Method: Experience report on the implementation of the nucleus and strategies for patient safety in a hospital in the south of Brazil, from 2009 to 2017.

Results: The concern with patient safety was made official in 2009 with the creation of a specific service for risk management and in 2015 it was named the patient safety nucleus.