Impact of Collaborative Leadership, Workplace Social Capital, and Interprofessional Collaboration Practice on Patient Safety Climate.

Purpose: Patient safety climate is an important factor in promoting patient safety for healthcare organizations. This study investigated the relationship between collaborative leadership and patient safety climate, the mediation effect of workplace social capital, or interprofessional collaboration practice.

Methods: A web-based cross-sectional questionnaire survey was administered between May 2021 and May 2022, to employees of three acute care hospitals in Japan.

Interprofessional collaboration mediates the relationship between perceived organizational learning and safety climate in hospitals: A cross-sectional study.

Background: Organizational learning (OL) and interprofessional collaboration (IPC) are said to enhance medical safety in hospitals, but the relationship between these variables has not been quantitatively tested.

Objective: This study examines the mediating effects of IPC on the relationship between OL and safety climate (improvement, compliance, and patient/family involvement).

Methods: An anonymous self-reporting questionnaire was administered to 1,495 healthcare workers from November 2021 to January 2022.

Interprofessional Team Collaboration as a Mediator Between Workplace Social Capital and Patient Safety Climate: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Background And Objectives: Patient-safety climate is one of the most important organizational factors contributing to health care quality. We hypothesized that a patient safety climate is fostered by the willingness to collaborate and trust among members as well as by daily collaborative practices. This study aimed to clarify the effect of workplace social capital on patient safety climate.

Discovery of Terbinafine Low Susceptibility Trichophyton rubrum strain in Japan.

This is the first confirmed report of terbinafine low susceptibility Trichophyton rubrum, BGUTR13, in Japan collected from the whole sole of the elderly over 65s with cotton swab sampling method at the special nursing care-home in 2016. We revealed BGUTR13 showed low susceptibility (MIC, >128 μg/mL) against terbinafine. But, BGUTR13 exhibited normal susceptibility to itraconazole, did not showed cross-resistance.

Molecular Epidemiological Analysis of the Spreading Conditions of Trichophyton in Long-Term Care Facilities in Japan.

Tinea pedis and tinea unguium are common infectious diseases, and many elderly people are reported to contract these infections. In this study, to investigate whether strains of the same origin are spreading inside a long-term care facility, we analyzed Trichophyton rubrum and Trichophyton mentagrophytes, isolated from the residents and staff at the facilities located in the Kanto area, using a genomic analytical method targeting tandem repeat regions in the nontranscribed spacer (NTS) region of ribosomal DNA. Five NTS types were confirmed in T.

[Epidemiological Study on Trichophyton Disseminating from the Feet of the Elderly].

Objectives: To grasp the colonization status of Trichophyton in terms of spreading rate, we investigated the intergenerational epidemiological difference in the spreading rate of Trichophyton from teenagers to the elderly aged over 65. In addition, the elderly people were divided into two groups: those living at nursing homes and those living at their homes. We compared the two groups in terms of the difference in the spreading rate of Trichophyton.