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Patient Safety Walkround (PSW) is a tool originally designed to help hospital leaders implement effective safety solutions. The authors present the results of a project aimed at promoting adoption of patient safety practices “on the ground” through an adapted version of (PSW). Field visits, carried out by a multidisciplinary team consisting of Safety Leaders, Nurse Coordinators, Medical Directors, Safety and Quality Facilitators of the unit and a representative of the Hospital management, were conducted in order to identify barriers to the implementation of patient safety practices and gather comments and suggestions from healthcare professionals on how to improve the standards as well as implementation strategies. Data were collected with a structured form, including observations, interviews and focus groups and then elaborated according to the PSW scheme. Results of the visits were reported to healthcare professionals and to the management, and improvement plans were undertaken, which led to structural and organizational improvements.
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Terranova, G., Razzolini, I., D’Amico, M., Elisei, O., Marini, L., Bellandi, T. (2019). Safety Walkrounds: “On the Ground” Experience at the Northwest Trust of the Tuscany Region. In: Cotrim, T., Serranheira, F., Sousa, P., Hignett, S., Albolino, S., Tartaglia, R. (eds) Health and Social Care Systems of the Future: Demographic Changes, Digital Age and Human Factors. HEPS 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1012. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24067-7_39
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