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How Do Home Health Care Nurses Deal With Care
Errors? Said Abu Salem, Principal
Investigator
Funded by NIOSH/University
of Cincinnati Education and Research Center
(2004-05)
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Said Abu Salem
(Ph.D. 2006) |
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The purpose of this study is to assess how home
health nurses perceive and cope with health care
errors. The Institute of Medicine report on
medical errors in November 2000 brought this issue
to the public's attention and has resulted in an
increased effort to reduce medical errors. This
report indicated that between 44,000 and 98,000
people die each year due to medical errors in
hospitals. The cost of medical errors is
approximately $37.6 billion each year; $17 billion
has been attributed to preventable errors (IOM,
1999). Unfortunately, data are not available on
the extent of the problem outside hospitals.
Home health nurses in Kentucky will be surveyed to
determine how they perceive and cope with errors.
A modified version of a survey that was originally
developed by Wu and colleagues (1991) will be
used. Kentucky Home Health Association will
provide a list of home health agencies. The
directors of home health agencies will be
contacted to obtain their agreement and support
for the study. The investigator will send the
sealed surveys to the directors of participating
home health agencies who will distribute the
surveys to nurses in their agencies. Participants
will be provided with self-addressed envelopes and
asked to return the envelope within two weeks.
Survey data will be entered into Excel and
exported to SPSS for analysis.
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$4,075 - ERC
Pilot Research Project
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