http://sqhn.org/web en-us N/A dipo@zeroone.ws Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:56:38 CST 20 http://sqhn.org/web/articles/9524/1/Effective-Communication-and-Teamwork-in-Promoting-Patient-Safety/Page1.html Ineffective or insufficient communication among team members is a major contributing factor to adverse events in healthcare as revealed by a growing body of literature on safety and error prevention.  Patient harm, increase length of stay and ineffective resource use are some of the results of communication failures in acute settings.]]> no@spam.com (Dr. O Oluborode) http://sqhn.org/web/articles/9524/1/Effective-Communication-and-Teamwork-in-Promoting-Patient-Safety/Page1.html http://sqhn.org/web/articles/9327/1/Patient-Safety-in-Africa-A-Culture-Shift/Page1.html Ente and colleagues found that 75% of African healthcare professionals believed that adverse events were mistakes made by individual practitioners leading to personal guilt, depression, and remorse (Ente, Oyewumi, & Mpora, 2010). Fear of blame, prosecution, and even imprisonment for medical errors may impede the reporting of patient harm in African healthcare settings as in other countries (Barach & Small, 2002). This fear of reporting further complicates the ability to collect incident reports or obtain open and transparent information concerning suspected adverse events.]]> no@spam.com (Stephen Powell, Daniel Baily, Njide Ndili and Christopher Ente) http://sqhn.org/web/articles/9327/1/Patient-Safety-in-Africa-A-Culture-Shift/Page1.html http://sqhn.org/web/articles/31/1/Patient-Safety---Our-Responsibility/Page1.html

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