Purpose
This study aimed to determine the severity of patient safety incidents and its associated factors in Long-term Care Hospital (LTCH) settings.
Methods
This study performed a cross-sectional analysis of secondary national data from the Korea Patient Safety Reporting and Learning System. A total of 5,316 LTCH datasets from 2018 to 2020 were analyzed using multi-nominal logistic regression with the help of the SPSS 26.0 program.
Results
Adverse events were significantly associated with age, location of the incidents, night-duty hours, incident type, and small hospital size. Further, sentinel events were significantly associated with female gender, age, incident type (meal and suicide/self-harm), and small hospital size.
Conclusion
The results underline the need for developing standardized patient safety guidelines that consider LTCH characteristics and holding periodic education programs for healthcare workers in LTCHs so that they can gain adequate knowledge and practical skills for ensuring patient safety. In addition, they highlight the need for measures to improve institutional support and processes so that any weaknesses can be resolved to optimize patient safety.

Citations

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  Soojin Chung, Jeongim Lee
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  Jeongin Choe, Kyungmi Woo
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  Soojin Lee, Kyung Won Paek, Nam Soo Park, Min Kyoung Kim, Sangnam Jeon
  Korean Journal of Health Education and Promotion.2023; 40(1): 89.     CrossRef
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  Eun-Jin Kim, Yeon-Hwan Park
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PURPOSE
This study is to identify how depression, hope and social support influence to suicidal ideation of renal dialysis patients and the relating factors according to their general characteristics.
METHODS
This descriptive correlative study was conducted through a organized and structured self-administrated questionnaire and 120 sampled renal dialysis patients. Collected data was analyzed by t-tests, ANOVA, Pearson's correlation coefficient and multiple regression analysis using SPSS/WIN 18.0.
RESULTS
Findings revealed that; 1) The degrees of suicidal ideation were significantly different among groups according to the marital status (F=3.37, p=.021), drinking (F=4.97, p=.008) and smoking history (F=4.77, p=.010), 2) Pearson's correlation coefficient revealed a significant association among the suicidal ideation, hope, depression and social support, 3) Multiple regression analysis showed depression (beta=.58, t=7.77, p<.001), social support (beta=-.21, t=-2.69, p=.008) and alcohol drinking (beta=.17, t=2.61, p=.010) were related to factors. They accounted 54% of the suicidal ideation of the subjects.
CONCLUSION
Based on the findings of this study, health professionals should provide renal dialysis patients with proper management of suicidal ideation as well as its relating factors, hope, depression and social support. Especially, it needs to implement suicidal ideation management and self-help group program to renal dialysis patients.