Patient Safety Culture: Effects on Errors, Incident Reporting, and Patient Safety Grade.

Objectives: This study mainly examines the effects of patient safety culture dimensions on 4 outcomes (self-reported errors, witnessing errors, incident reporting, and patient safety grade).

Methods: The data were collected using the Turkish version of the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire, which consists of 6 dimensions (teamwork climate, safety climate, job satisfaction, stress recognition, perceptions of management, and working conditions). Of 1679 personnel working in 6 hospitals in Ankara, 860 were randomly selected.

Relationship between authentic leadership, transformational leadership and innovative work behavior: mediating role of innovation climate.

This study aimed to demonstrate the effect of transformational and authentic leadership characteristics of healthcare managers on employees' innovative work behavior and the mediating role of innovation climate. The study was conducted in 19 hospitals in Turkey and 263 managers participated. The data were collected using the transformational leadership questionnaire, the authentic leadership questionnaire, the innovative climate assessment tool and the innovative work behavior scale.

Health literacy of cardiology patients: determinants and effects on patient outcomes.

Health literacy is important for the management of chronic cardiovascular diseases. Comprehensive studies related to health literacy of cardiac patients are limited. The aims of this study were to determine the determinants of health literacy and its effects on patient outcomes in cardiology patients.

Staff perceptions of patient safety culture in general surgery departments in Turkey.

Background: The first step towards establishing and improving patient safety culture in hospitals is measuring patient safety culture perceptions of staff. Few studies have examined the perception of patient safety culture in general surgery departments.

Objectives: The objective of this study was to evaluate patient safety culture and patient safety grade in general surgery departments and to examine the relation between the patient safety culture and the patient safety grade.

Evaluation of Transition to Electronic Prescriptions in Turkey: Perspective of Family Physicians.

Background: One of the most important steps of the health transformation program involves the application of electronic prescriptions (e-prescriptions) in health services. Information technologies are highly important in generating e-prescriptions, which can be described as a document produced by authorized personnel electronically, containing written information and instructions regarding a patient's medication and its usage. E-prescribing has become increasingly applied in recent years as a contributing application to prescribers and patients.

Predictors of hospital readmissions in internal medicine patients: Application of Andersen's Model.

Objective: This study aimed to identify predictors of internal medicine patients' readmission to hospital, using Andersen's behavioral model.

Methods: This prospective cohort study included 2622 patients aged ≥18 years, who were admitted to internal medicine wards at a university hospital between 1 February 2015 and 31 January 2016. Independent variables were divided into four groups (predisposing, enabling, need, and utilization), based on Andersen's model, and included in stepwise logistic regression analysis.

Ethical climate as a moderator between organizational trust and whistle-blowing among nurses and secretaries.

Objectives: To reveal the effect of perception of ethical climate by nurses and secretaries and their level of organizational trust on their whistleblowing intention.

Methods: Nurses and secretaries working in a University Hospital in Ankara, Turkey, were enrolled in the study conducted in 2016. Responses were received from 369 nurses and secretaries working at Clinics and Polyclinics.

The effect of nurses' empowerment perceptions on job safety behaviours: a research study in Turkey.

. This study aimed to investigate the effect of nurses' empowerment perceptions on job safety behaviours. .

Patients' readiness for discharge: Predictors and effects on unplanned readmissions, emergency department visits and death.

Aim: To determine the variables that affect patients' perceptions about their readiness for discharge and to elucidate the effects of these perceptions on patient outcomes such as unplanned readmission to the hospital, emergency department visits and death within 30 days after discharge.

Background: In recent years, it has become even more important to assess patients' readiness for discharge as patients tend to be discharged more quickly.

Methods: For the determination of patients' self-assessment, the Readiness for Hospital Discharge Scale/Short Form was utilized.

A comprehensive framework identifying readmission risk factors using the CHAID algorithm: a prospective cohort study.

Objective: To identify frequency of readmission after discharge from internal-medicine wards, readmission risk factors, and reasons and costs of readmission.

Design: Prospective cohort study.

Setting: A tertiary-care hospital in Turkey.

Validity and reliability of the Turkish version of the readiness for hospital discharge scale/short form.

Aim: The aim of this study is to test the validity and reliability of the Turkish version of the readiness for hospital discharge scale/short form.

Background: Assessment of readiness for discharge from the patient's perspective is becoming increasingly important for patient safety, satisfaction and various patient outcomes such as readmission, health service utilization and mortality. The readiness for hospital discharge scale/short form allows health care providers to determine patients' discharge readiness.

Violence Against Doctors and Nurses in Hospitals in Turkey.

Purpose: This study shows the rates of violence experienced by doctors and nurses and their ensuing responses including reporting rates and any effects experienced because of the violence.

Method: The Survey for Investigating the Violence on Medical Employees was administered to 254 doctors and nurses. Data were analyzed using chi-square and logistic regression analysis.

The relationship between burnout and mobbing among hospital managers.

Background: Mobbing and burnout can cause serious consequences, especially for health workers and managers. Level of burnout and exposure to mobbing may trigger each other. There is a need to conduct additional and specific studies on the topic to develop some strategies.

The Turkish version of the safety attitudes questionnaire: psychometric properties and baseline data.

Objective: To test the psychometric soundness of the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire (SAQ) in Turkish hospitals, examine differences in perceptions of safety and provide baseline data.

Methods: The SAQ (inpatient version) was translated with the back-translation technique into Turkish. Ten out of 50 teaching hospitals belonging to the Ministry of Health in Turkey were selected randomly.

Comparing patients' and physicians' opinions on quality outpatient care.

The objective of this study was to compare the opinions of patients and physicians on the importance of discrete elements of health care as determinants of the quality of outpatient care. A survey was conducted on patients and physicians of a military hospital in Ankara, Turkey. Participants rated 60 elements of care on its importance to high-quality care on a 5-point scale (not important [1] to essential [5]).