Alarm fatigue and sleep quality in medical staff-a Polish-Czech-Slovak study on workplace ergonomics.

Background: Alarms are crucial in informing Healthcare Workers (HCWs) about critical patient needs, but unmanaged frequency and noise of alarms can de-sensitize medical staff and compromise patient safety. Alarm fatigue is identified as the major cause of the clinical alarm management problem. It occurs when the medical staff is overwhelmed by the number of clinical alarms.

Psychosocial ergonomics of the workplace of medical staff during the COVID-19 pandemic in three risk's dimensions: working hours, violence and the use of psychoactive drugs-a prospective pilot study.

Introduction: Workplace ergonomics should also be considered in the context of psychosocial factors affecting the worker, which have a real impact on occupational risk. The present study examined psychosocial risk factors in medical personnel in three domains: working hours, violence and substance abuse.

Methods: The purpose of the present study is to assess the current state of psychosocial ergonomics of medical personnels by measuring occupational risks in the domains of: working hours, violence and psychoactive substance abuse.

Assessment of selected psychosocial risk factors: stress, job burnout, and bullying in the case of medical staff as part of workplace ergonomics during the COVID-19 pandemic-A prospective pilot study.

Background: The purpose of the pilot study conducted by the authors was to assess occupational risk in selected areas of psychosocial risk factors among health professions in a pilot study. Medical staff working in the healthcare sector experience stress, job burnout and bullying on a daily basis. Monitoring occupational risks in the above areas provides an opportunity to take appropriate preventive measures.

Perception of Work-Related Stress and Quality of Life among Nurses during COVID-19 Pandemic-An International, Multicenter Prospective Study.

The major focus of the study was the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on healthcare workers' mental health. Nurses are the workers who were exposed to pandemic-related stress, being the most affected. The present cross-sectional study was focused on finding out the differences of the level of work-related stress and quality of life in nurses of the three Central European states, specifically the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic, and Poland.

Polish Adaptation of the as an Element of Improving Patient Safety.

Medical personnel, working in medical intensive care units, are exposed to fatigue associated with alarms emitted by numerous medical devices used for diagnosing, treating, and monitoring patients. Alarm fatigue is a safety and quality problem in patient care and actions should be taken to reduce this by, among other measures, building an effective safety culture. In the present study, an adaptation of a questionnaire to assess alarm fatigue was carried out.

Application of Novel Pharmacists' Risk in Pharmacotherapy (PHARIPH) Scale for Identification of Factors Affecting the Safety of Hospital Pharmacotherapy-An Observational Pilot Study.

Background: The widespread occurrence of medication errors (MEs) has become a global problem because it poses a serious threat to the health and lives of patients, can prevent the achievement of treatment goals, undermines patient trust in the health care system, and increases treatment costs. The purpose of this study was to develop an appropriate tool to identify key risk factors that hospital pharmacists believe threaten pharmacotherapy safety in the hospital.

Methods: A diagnostic survey method using the authors' PHARIPH (Pharmacists' Risk in Pharmacotherapy) scale and authorial questions was used to identify risks that may result in patient pharmacotherapy errors at the hospital pharmacist level.

Self-assessment of Rationing and Quality of Nursing Care.

Background: Nursing care rationing has been a widespread problem in everyday nursing practice for many years.

Purpose: The aim of this research study was to assess the prevalence of care rationing among nurses working in Poland.

Methods: The study was conducted among a population of 1310 nurses.

Satisfaction With Life, Satisfaction With Job, and the Level of Care Rationing Among Polish Nurses-A Cross-Sectional Study.

Rationing of nursing care is a serious issue that has been widely discussed throughout recent years in many countries. The level of satisfaction with life and of satisfaction with job as the nurse-related factors may significantly affect the level of care rationing. To assess the rationing of nursing care among the Polish nurses and the impact of nurse-related variables, i.

Patient Safety in the Process of Pharmacotherapy Carried Out by Nurses-A Polish-Slovak Prospective Observational Study.

Pharmacotherapy, i.e., the use of medicines for combating a disease or its symptoms, is one of the crucial elements of patient care.

Rationing of Nursing Care and Patient Safety.

Nursing care has a significant impact on patient safety, which affects clinical outcomes, patients' satisfaction with the care received and nursing personnel's satisfaction with the care provided. This study aimed to determine the extent of nursing care rationing and its relationship with patient safety including identification of the specific reasons. This cross-sectional study involved 245 nurses and was performed between April-June 2019 in four hospitals in Wrocław, Poland.

Influenza as an important factor causing increased risk of patients' deaths, excessive morbidity and prolonged hospital stays.

Introduction: Influenza infection is associated with potential serious complications, increased hospitalization rates and a higher risk of death.

Material And Methods: A retrospective comparative analysis of selected indicators of hospitalization at the University Hospital in Wroclaw was conducted on patients with confirmed influenza infection and a control group during the 2018-2019 influenza season. The threshold for statistical significance of differences between the groups was set at < 0.

Safety Assessment of the Pharmacotherapy Process at the Nurse and Midwife Level - An Observational Study.

Purpose: Pharmacological errors are among the most common in the healthcare system. This study aimed to determine the level of safety of the pharmacotherapy process at the stage performed by nurses and midwives by indicating the key risk factors affecting patients' safety.

Methods: A group of 1276 nurses and 136 midwives in Poland participated in the study.

Factors affecting work ability index among polish nurses working in hospitals - A prospective observational survey.

Aims: To assess the ability to work of Polish nurses by age groups.

Background: The ability to work is widely discussed in the literature in the context of nurses' productivity; thus, it is necessary to identify the ability to work when facing an increasing demand for services.

Methods: The observational study involved 349 professionally active nurses aged 46.

A new approach to the prevention of nursing care rationing: Cross-sectional study on positive orientation.

Aims: To assess the effects of nurses' life satisfaction and life orientation on the level of nursing care rationing.

Background: Best practice within human resource management argues that striving for a positive orientation within the workforce may create a friendly work environment that could promote the employee's development and job satisfaction in a health care organisation.

Methods: A total of 547 nurses were enrolled and assessed using three self-report scales: the Basel Extent of Rationing of Nursing Care-R (BERCA-R), the Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS) and the Life Orientation Test (LOT-R).

Evaluation of the occurrence of work-related musculoskeletal pain among anesthesiology, intensive care, and surgical nurses: An observational and descriptive study.

Clinical nurses can encounter musculoskeletal pain episodes stemming from regular exposure to workplace risk factors that contribute to overloads. This study aimed to evaluate the occurrence and location of work-related musculoskeletal pain among Polish nurses. An observational and descriptive survey study was conducted among 136 nurses working in the anesthesiology, intensive care, and surgery units.

Polish adaptation and validation of the Perceived Implicit Rationing of Nursing Care (PIRNCA) questionnaire: a cross-sectional validation study.

Objectives: To develop a Polish adaptation of the Perceived Implicit Rationing of Nursing Care (PIRNCA)questionnaire.

Design: Cross-sectional validation study.

Settings: Nurses working in surgical and cancer wards in Poland.

An analysis of the costs of treating aged patients in a large clinical hospital in Poland under the pressure of recent demographic trends.

Introduction: The aging of modern societies increases the general healthcare burden due to the growing demand for inpatient services, which lack adequate financing.

Material And Methods: Data concerning the costs of 312,250 hospitalizations at University Clinical Hospital in Wrocław, Poland in the years 2012-2015 were analyzed according to the age of the patients: below 65 years and 65 years and older, with subgroups (65-74, 75-84 and 85 years and older).

Results: The mean length of stay (LOS) differed significantly for patients below 65 years and for patients 65 years old or older (3.

Monitoring of awareness level in dispensary patients with arterial hypertension.

Introduction: Results of monitoring of awareness level in dispensary patients with arterial hypertension (AH) are given in the article. The objective of the study was to investigate awareness level of dispensary patients with hypertension in Sumy as for the course of their disease, implementation of preventive measures, diagnosis and treatment, and to use the obtained information in the process of management of healthcare quality.

Materials And Methods: The results of close-ended questionnaires were used in the capacity of materials.

[Risk management of hospital infections as a supporting tool for the improvement of hospital quality - some European examples].

Prevention and control of nosocomial infections is one of the main pillars of security in each medical facility. This affects the quality of services and helps to minimize the economic losses incurred as a result of such infections. (Prolonged hospitalization, expensive antibiotic therapies, court costs of damages).

Differences in selected medical care parameters in rheumatic disease ward patients of different ages of life.

Introduction: Rheumatic diseases are becoming more and more common in Poland with the ageing of the population. Nearly 18% of the total hospital admissions in Poland result from rheumatic diseases, which was equivalent to 350 thousand cases in the year 2008. These diseases tend to last for many decades, decreasing both the quality of life and income of the patients as well as increasing the medical institutions' workload and society's financial burden.

Costs in inflammatory bowel diseases.

Variables influencing total direct medical costs in inflammatory bowel diseases include country, diagnosis (generally, patients with Crohn's disease generated higher costs compared with patients with ulcerative colitis), and year since diagnosis. In all studies the mean costs were higher than the median costs, which indicates that a relatively small group of the most severely ill patients significantly affect the total cost of treatment of these diseases. A major component of direct medical costs was attributed to hospitalisation, ranging from 49% to 80% of the total.