Reporting Safety Issues to Superiors Requires Training, Study Says

Changing junior physicians’ hesitance to speak up about safety to their superiors will require training reinforced by practice, according to a study in The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety.

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University Hospital Galway, an academic teaching hospital affiliated with the National University of Ireland, Galway, designed, conducted and evaluated a program to train interns to speak up to attendings or consultant physicians in January 2012 to March 2012 and November 2012 to January 2013.

Read the full story on speaking up about patient safety in Becker’s Hospital Review.

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