Publications by authors named "Petra Porte"
Objective: To assess the various factors that influence environmentally sustainable behaviour in gynaecological surgery and examine the differences between gynaecologists and residents.
Design: An interview study.
Setting: Academic and non-academic hospitals in the Netherlands.
Article Synopsis
- The review aims to identify current methods for measuring costs in value-based healthcare (VBHC) and how these methods support value-based decision-making in care provision.
- The literature search yielded 1930 studies, with 215 focusing on costs in a VBHC context; many relied on hospital costs and employed sophisticated costing methods for better managerial insights.
- Key practices for successful cost measurement include process mapping, expert input, and observations, with time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC) highlighted as a highly useful method when implemented effectively.
To decrease infusion pump administration errors, time-consuming training is often initiated. The aims of this study were twofold: to develop minimum competency requirements for programming and operation of infusion pumps and to develop and validate a test for nurses based on those requirements. The test was completed by 226 nurses between May and December 2017.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: Despite widespread use of medical devices and their increasing complexity, their contribution to unintended injury caused by healthcare (adverse events, AEs) remains relatively understudied. The aim of this study was to gain insight in the incidence and types of AEs involving medical devices (AMDEs).
Methods: Data from two patient record studies for the identification of AEs were used.
Background: The correct and safe use of electrosurgery requires medical specialists to be proficient. Minimum proficiency requirements and proficiency tests are a manner to structurally assure proficiency. The objective of this study is to explore attitudes and perceptions of medical specialists on proficiency, proficiency requirements and proficiency tests for the safe use of electrosurgery.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: To fulfil the need for a basic level of competence in robotic surgery (Brinkman et al., Surg Endosc Other Interv Tech 31(1):281-287, 2017; Dutch Health inspectorate (Inspectie voor de gezondheidszorg), Insufficient carefulness at the introduction of surgical robots (in Dutch: Onvoldoende zorgvuldigheid bij introductie van operatierobots), Igz, Utrecht, 2010), the NIVEL (Netherlands Institute for Healthcare Research) developed the 'Basic proficiency requirements for the safe use of robotic surgery' (BPR). Based on the BPR a 1-day robotic surgery training was organised to answer the following research questions: (1) Are novice robot surgeons able to accurately self-assess their knowledge and dexterity skills? (2) Is it possible to include the teaching of all BPRs in a 1-day training?
Materials And Methods: Based on the BPR, a robot surgery course was developed for residents and specialists (surgery, gynaecology and urology).
EXPLORING MEDICAL DEVICES: THE USE OF RISK ASSESSMENT TOOLS AND THEIR LINK WITH TRAINING IN HOSPITALS.
Int J Technol Assess Health Care
January 2018
Objectives: The aim of this study was to explore the risk assessment tools and criteria used to assess the risk of medical devices in hospitals, and to explore the link between the risk of a medical device and how those risks impact or alter the training of staff.
Methods: Within a broader questionnaire on implementation of a national guideline, we collected quantitative data regarding the types of risk assessment tools used in hospitals and the training of healthcare staff.
Results: The response rate for the questionnaire was 81 percent; a total of sixty-five of eighty Dutch hospitals.