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KMID : 1024820130010010017
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Journal of Korean Academy of Dental Administration
2013 Volume.1 No. 1 p.17 ~ p.29
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Dental Culture for Patient Safety
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Shin Ho-Sung
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Abstract
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Paying attention to patient safety seems not to be a temporary phenomenon, and there is a tendency that it"s already becoming part of healthcare culture to make an effort to ensure patient safety. The purpose of this study was to examine the level of endeavor for patient safety in the field of dentistry by investigating health care personnels in dental institutions. The instrument used in this study was a Korean version of questionnaire developed by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality, or AHRQ. This instrument dealt with 12 subordinate concepts of patient safety and 51 items. The subjects in this study were 256 dental personnels who attended the 2011 quality control conference for dentistry in December, 2011. After a survey was conducted, the following findings were given: 53.4 percent of the respondents gave positive responses as to the level of overall readiness of dental institutions for patient safety. Among the 12 subordinate concepts, they rated six items relatively higher: intra-departmental teamwork(73%), organized education/training for patient safety(51%), expectations from and behavior of supervisors/administrators(57%), patient transfer between different departments(63%), managerial assistance for patient safety(60%), and inter-departmental teamwork(56%). Private dental hospitals were considered to surpass the dental hospitals of universities or dental departments of general hospitals in terms of readiness for patient safety. In regard to comparison between our country and the United States, there were great disparities between the two in major factors to guarantee patient safety as part of medical culture. This study focused on finding out the state of patient safety in our country"s dentistry, and this study is meaningful in that it was the first attempt to research patient safety.
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KEYWORD
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Patient safety, Quality management in dentistry, Patient safety culture
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