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Patient safety culture from the perspective of employees in a university hospital

Abstract Safety culture is a product of values, attitudes, skills, and behavioral patterns, and it determines the commitment of the management to a secure organization. The evaluation of safety culture in hospitals helps to identify and manage the relevant patient safety issues in hospital routines and w...

A percepção de profissionais de saúde sobre cultura de segurança do paciente em hospital universitário

A Cultura de Segurança (CS) conceitua-se como o produto de valores, atitudes, competências e padrões de comportamento individuais e de grupo, os quais determinam o compromisso da administração de uma organização segura. O objetivo deste trabalho foi avaliar a CS do paciente em hospital universitá...

Prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a University Hospital in the South of Brazil

Braz. j. pharm. sci; 51 (1), 2015
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) stand out as one of the main agents causing nosocomial and community infections. This retrospective study aimed to analyze the MRSA predominance in a university hospital in the south of Brazil and it was carried out for five years (from 2007 to 2011). 61...

The medicine selection process in four large university hospitals in Brazil: Does the DTC have a role?

Braz. j. pharm. sci; 51 (1), 2015
Knowledge about evidence-based medicine selection and the role of the Drug and Therapeutics Committee (DTC) is an important topic in the literature but is scarcely discussed in Brazil. Our objective, using a qualitative design, was to analyze the medicine selection process performed in four large univers...

Pharmaceutical care in transplant patients in a university hospital: pharmaceutical interventions

Braz. j. pharm. sci; 49 (4), 2013
A descriptive and prospective study was conducted on the pharmaceutical care in the post-transplant outpatient clinic of Hospital Universitario Walter Cantidio of Universidade Federal do Ceará (HUWC/UFC), in Fortaleza- Ceará in the period of April to October of 2011. The aim of the present study was to...

Use of an indicator to evaluate physician adherence to prescription guidelines for the treatment of heart failure

Braz. j. pharm. sci; 49 (4), 2013
The aim of this study was to use indicators to evaluate physician adherence to prescription guidelines for heart failure treatment in a university hospital. This was a prospective cohort study conducted in a university hospital. The information collected at the time of patient admission, including therap...