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Mistri IU, Badge A, Shahu S. Enhancing Patient Safety Culture in Hospitals. Cureus 2023; 15:e51159. [PMID: 38283419 PMCID: PMC10811440 DOI: 10.7759/cureus.51159] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/11/2023] [Accepted: 12/27/2023] [Indexed: 01/30/2024] Open
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Patient safety has become a top priority for healthcare organizations. A better patient safety environment is associated with a lower probability of significant complications. Training programmers is critical to promoting patient safety and minimizing misunderstandings. The quality, performance, and productivity of the healthcare industry can be dramatically improved by changing the patient safety atmosphere operating within the hospital sector. Hospitals can significantly reduce medical errors and adverse events by implementing the program and training programmers to prioritize patient safety. This will improve patient outcomes and increase efficiency and effectiveness. Creating a patient safety culture within hospitals will contribute to a higher standard of care and improved overall performance in the healthcare industry. Hospitals can identify systemic problems and implement proactive measures to prevent future incidents by creating an environment in which healthcare professionals feel comfortable reporting errors. A patient safety culture encourages collaboration and open communication among healthcare teams leading to more effective and coordinated care.
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- Isha U Mistri
- Hospital Administration, School of Allied Health Sciences, Datta Meghe Institute of Higher Education and Research (Deemed to Be University), Nagpur, IND
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- Microbiology, Datta Meghe Medical College, Datta Meghe Institute of Higher Education and Research (Deemed to Be University), Nagpur, IND
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- Hospital Administration, School of Allied Health Sciences, Datta Meghe Institute of Higher Education and Research (Deemed to Be University), Nagpur, IND
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Karway G, Ivanova J, Kaing T, Todd M, Chern D, Murcko A, Syed K, Garcia M, Franczak M, Whitfield MJ, Grando MA. My data choices: Pilot evaluation of patient-controlled medical record sharing technology. Health Informatics J 2022; 28:14604582221143893. [DOI: 10.1177/14604582221143893] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/03/2022]
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Patients desire greater control over sharing their digital health data. Consent2Share (C2S) is an open-source consent tool offered by SAMHA and the VA to support granular data sharing (GDS) options that align with patient preferences and data privacy regulations. The need to validate this tool exists. We pilot tested C2S with 199 English and Spanish-speaking patients with behavioral health conditions (BHCs) and patient guardians. Data were analyzed using mixed methodology. All participants desired granular control over the sharing of their health data. Most participants (87%) were highly interested in using a tool that offered granular options for executing data sharing decisions, with over half (55%) indicated that being able to specify the data type, data recipient, and data use purpose made them more willing to share their medical records. Majority (83%) indicated that the supported data type sharing categories satisfied their data-sharing privacy preferences. Majority (87%) also reported that knowing the purpose of data use made them more comfortable in sharing. Some participants (28%) accessed the education materials provided on data type sharing options. Patients want granular choices when sharing medical records. Consent2Share and its supported data type sharing categories are adequate to capture patients’ data sharing preferences. Further development is needed before deployment in clinical environments.
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van Zoonen EE, van Baar ME, van Schie CHM, Koppes LLJ, Verheij RA. Burn injuries in primary care in the Netherlands: Risk factors and trends. Burns 2022; 48:440-447. [PMID: 34167851 DOI: 10.1016/j.burns.2021.04.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2020] [Revised: 04/25/2021] [Accepted: 04/29/2021] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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BACKGROUND Research to date has mainly focused on burn injuries treated in secondary care. This study aims to provide knowledge on the epidemiology of burn injuries in primary care, to give directions for burn prevention. METHODS Data were derived from routine electronic health records of general practices and their out-of-hours service organisations in the Netherlands that participated in the Nivel Primary Care Database 2010-2015. We studied risk factors and trends. RESULTS The average burn injury prevalence rate was 4.40 (95% CI 4.27-4.53) per 1000 person-years in daytime general practice care and 1.47 (95% CI 1.46-1.49) per 1000 inhabitants in out-of-hours care. Children of 0-4 years old, especially boys, and young adult women had a higher risk. Burn injury risk was higher during the summer months and around New Year's Eve. Living in low socioeconomic and strongly urbanised neighbourhoods was associated with a higher risk of burn injury than living in other neighbourhoods. CONCLUSION Dutch general practitioners have a large share in burn care and therefore can play a significant role in burn prevention. Prevention may be most effective in the summer and around New Year's Eve, and specific attention seems to be warranted for low socioeconomic groups and strongly urbanised neighbourhoods.
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- Association of Dutch Burn Centres, Burn Centre, Maasstad Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Nivel, Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research, Utrecht, The Netherlands; Faculty of Health, Nutrition & Sports, The Hague University of Applied Sciences, The Hague, The Netherlands
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- Nivel, Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research, Utrecht, The Netherlands; Tranzo, Tilburg School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands
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Trein P, Wagner J. Governing Personalized Health: A Scoping Review. Front Genet 2021; 12:650504. [PMID: 33968134 PMCID: PMC8097042 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2021.650504] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2021] [Accepted: 03/17/2021] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Genetic research is advancing rapidly. One important area for the application of the results from this work is personalized health. These are treatments and preventive interventions tailored to the genetic profile of specific groups or individuals. The inclusion of personalized health in existing health systems is a challenge for policymakers. In this article, we present the results of a thematic scoping review of the literature dealing with governance and policy of personalized health. Our analysis points to four governance challenges that decisionmakers face against the background of personalized health. First, researchers have highlighted the need to further extend and harmonize existing research infrastructures in order to combine different types of genetic data. Second, decisionmakers face the challenge to create trust in personalized health applications, such as genetic tests. Third, scholars have pointed to the importance of the regulation of data production and sharing to avoid discrimination of disadvantaged groups and to facilitate collaboration. Fourth, researchers have discussed the challenge to integrate personalized health into regulatory-, financing-, and service provision structures of existing health systems. Our findings summarize existing research and help to guide further policymaking and research in the field of personalized health governance.
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- Philipp Trein
- Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Actuarial Science, Faculty of Business and Economics (HEC Lausanne), University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.,Swiss Finance Institute, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Rutella S, Cannarile MA, Gnjatic S, Gomes B, Guinney J, Karanikas V, Karkada M, Kirkwood JM, Kotlan B, Masucci GV, Meeusen E, Monette A, Naing A, Thorsson V, Tschernia N, Wang E, Wells DK, Wyant TL, Cesano A. Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer clinical and biomarkers data sharing resource document: Volume I-conceptual challenges. J Immunother Cancer 2020; 8:e001389. [PMID: 33127656 PMCID: PMC7604864 DOI: 10.1136/jitc-2020-001389] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 08/31/2020] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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The sharing of clinical trial data and biomarker data sets among the scientific community, whether the data originates from pharmaceutical companies or academic institutions, is of critical importance to enable the development of new and improved cancer immunotherapy modalities. Through data sharing, a better understanding of current therapies in terms of their efficacy, safety and biomarker data profiles can be achieved. However, the sharing of these data sets involves a number of stakeholder groups including patients, researchers, private industry, scientific journals and professional societies. Each of these stakeholder groups has differing interests in the use and sharing of clinical trial and biomarker data, and the conflicts caused by these differing interests represent significant obstacles to effective, widespread sharing of data. Thus, the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) Biomarkers Committee convened to identify the current barriers to biomarker data sharing in immuno-oncology (IO) and to help in establishing professional standards for the responsible sharing of clinical trial data. The conclusions of the committee are described in two position papers: Volume I-conceptual challenges and Volume II-practical challenges, the first of which is presented in this manuscript. Additionally, the committee suggests actions by key stakeholders in the field (including organizations and professional societies) as the best path forward, encouraging the cultural shift needed to ensure responsible data sharing in the IO research setting.
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- Sergio Rutella
- John van Geest Cancer Research Centre, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, UK
- Centre for Health, Ageing and Understanding Disease (CHAUD), Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, UK
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- Roche Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development Oncology, Roche Innovation Center, Penzberg, Germany
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- Department of Medicine, Tisch Cancer Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA
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- Roche Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development Oncology, Roche Innovation Center, Basel, Switzerland
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- Roche Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development Oncology, Roche Innovation Center, Zurich, Switzerland
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- Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology/ Oncology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Melanoma Center at UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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- CancerProbe Pty Ltd, Prahran, Victoria, Australia
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- Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Investigational Cancer Therapeutics, Division of Cancer Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
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- Allogene Therapeutics, South San Francisco, California, USA
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- Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, San Francisco, California, USA
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Bernasconi L, Şen S, Angerame L, Balyegisawa AP, Hong Yew Hui D, Hotter M, Hsu CY, Ito T, Jörger F, Krassnitzer W, Phillips AT, Li R, Stockley L, Tay F, von Heijne Widlund C, Wan M, Wong C, Yau H, Hiemstra TF, Uresin Y, Senti G. Legal and ethical framework for global health information and biospecimen exchange - an international perspective. BMC Med Ethics 2020; 21:8. [PMID: 31964390 PMCID: PMC6975025 DOI: 10.1186/s12910-020-0448-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2019] [Accepted: 01/14/2020] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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Background The progress of electronic health technologies and biobanks holds enormous promise for efficient research. Evidence shows that studies based on sharing and secondary use of data/samples have the potential to significantly advance medical knowledge. However, sharing of such resources for international collaboration is hampered by the lack of clarity about ethical and legal requirements for transfer of data and samples across international borders. Main text Here, the International Clinical Trial Center Network (ICN) reports the legal and ethical requirements governing data and sample exchange (DSE) across four continents. The most recurring requirement is ethical approval, whereas only in specific conditions approval of national health authorities is required. Informed consent is not required in all sharing situations. However, waiver of informed consent is only allowed in certain countries/regions and under certain circumstances. The current legal and ethical landscape appears to be very complex and under constant evolution. Regulations differ between countries/regions and are often incomplete, leading to uncertainty. Conclusion With this work, ICN illuminates the unmet need for a single international collaborative framework to facilitate DSE. Harmonising requirements for global DSE will reduce inefficiency and waste in research. There are many challenges to realising this ambitious vision, including inconsistent terminology and definitions, and heterogeneous and dynamic legal constraints. Here, we identify areas of agreement and significant difference as a necessary first step towards facilitating international collaboration. We propose the establishment of a working group to continue the comparison across jurisdictions, create a standardised glossary and define a set of basic principles and fundamental requirements for DSE.
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- Lara Bernasconi
- Clinical Trials Center, University Hospital Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Center of Excellence for Clinical Research, University of Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Clinical Trial Center Spa, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Università Cattolica Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy
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- Clinical Trial Center, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan
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- Institute for Advancement of Clinical and Translational Science, Kyoto University and Kyoto University Hospital, Kyoto, Japan
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- Clinical Trials Center, University Hospital Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Shanghai Clinical Research Center, Shanghai, China
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- Cambridge Clinical Trials Unit, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridgem, UK
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- Clinical Trials Center, University Hospital Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland
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- Shanghai Clinical Research Center, Shanghai, China
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- Clinical Trials Centre, The University of Hong Kong, Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong
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- Clinical Trials Centre, The University of Hong Kong, Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong
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- Cambridge Clinical Trials Unit, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridgem, UK
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- Center of Excellence for Clinical Research, University of Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Clinical Trials Center, University Hospital Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland.
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Brandizi M, Melnichuk O, Bild R, Kohlmayer F, Rodriguez-Castro B, Spengler H, Kuhn KA, Kuchinke W, Ohmann C, Mustonen T, Linden M, Nyrönen T, Lappalainen I, Brazma A, Sarkans U. Orchestrating differential data access for translational research: a pilot implementation. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak 2017; 17:30. [PMID: 28330491 PMCID: PMC5363029 DOI: 10.1186/s12911-017-0424-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2016] [Accepted: 03/03/2017] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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Background Translational researchers need robust IT solutions to access a range of data types, varying from public data sets to pseudonymised patient information with restricted access, provided on a case by case basis. The reason for this complication is that managing access policies to sensitive human data must consider issues of data confidentiality, identifiability, extent of consent, and data usage agreements. All these ethical, social and legal aspects must be incorporated into a differential management of restricted access to sensitive data. Methods In this paper we present a pilot system that uses several common open source software components in a novel combination to coordinate access to heterogeneous biomedical data repositories containing open data (open access) as well as sensitive data (restricted access) in the domain of biobanking and biosample research. Our approach is based on a digital identity federation and software to manage resource access entitlements. Results Open source software components were assembled and configured in such a way that they allow for different ways of restricted access according to the protection needs of the data. We have tested the resulting pilot infrastructure and assessed its performance, feasibility and reproducibility. Conclusions Common open source software components are sufficient to allow for the creation of a secure system for differential access to sensitive data. The implementation of this system is exemplary for researchers facing similar requirements for restricted access data. Here we report experience and lessons learnt of our pilot implementation, which may be useful for similar use cases. Furthermore, we discuss possible extensions for more complex scenarios.
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- Marco Brandizi
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, CB10 1SD, UK.
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, CB10 1SD, UK
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- Chair of Medical Informatics, Institute of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, University Medical Center rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Chair of Medical Informatics, Institute of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, University Medical Center rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Chair of Medical Informatics, Institute of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, University Medical Center rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Chair of Medical Informatics, Institute of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, University Medical Center rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Chair of Medical Informatics, Institute of Medical Statistics and Epidemiology, University Medical Center rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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- Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf, Coordination Centre for Clinical Trials, Düsseldorf, Germany
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- European Clinical Research Infrastructure Network (ECRIN), Düsseldorf, Germany
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, CB10 1SD, UK
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- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, CB10 1SD, UK.
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