A safety culture assessment by mixed methods at a public maternity and infant hospital in China.

Objective: To assess safety culture at a public maternity hospital in Shanghai, China, using a sequential mixed methods approach. The study was part of a bigger study looking at the application of the mixed methods approach to assess safety culture in health care in different organizations and countries.

Methodology: A mixed methods approach was utilized by first distributing the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire measuring six safety culture dimensions and five independent items to all hospital staff (n=1482) working in 18 departments at a single hospital.

An Audit of Diabetes-Dependent Quality of Life (ADDQOL) in Older Patients with Diabetes Mellitus Type 2 in Slovenia.

Objective: This article reports a study to measure diabetes-dependent quality of life (QOL) in older Slovenian patients with diabetes mellitus type 2 (DMT2).

Methods: A cross-sectional study of older (age ≥ 65 years) patients with DMT2 at outpatient diabetic centers was conducted in all regions in Slovenia. The Audit of Diabetes-Dependent Quality of Life questionnaire was carried out between January and May 2012.

Lack of validity of a French adaptation of a scale measuring attitudes towards clinical practice guidelines.

Background: Valid instruments to measure practitioners' attitudes towards clinical practice guidelines need to be developed. However, few of the available instruments have been thoroughly validated.

Objective: To adapt into French and to test the reliability and validity of a scale for measurement of attitudes towards guidelines developed by Elovainio et al.

Principles of risk management in community nursing.

Risk is present in all aspects of practice. The changing nature of primary care means that community nurses will increasingly be expected to adopt roles that have traditionally been undertaken by other professionals and which may be associated with higher levels of risk. Although these developments offer opportunities to enhance patient care, nurses must also be aware of the implications for their own accountability.