"The impact of safety culture, quality of care, missed care and nurse s" by Faisal Khalaf Alanazi, Samuel Lapkin et al.
Aims: To examine the association between nursing unit safety culture, quality of care, missed care and nurse staffing levels, and inpatient falls using two data sources: incidence of falls and nurses' perceptions of fall frequency in their units. The study explores the association between the two sources of patient falls and identifies if nurses' perceptions of patient fall frequency reflect the actual patient falls recorded in the incident management system. Background: Inpatient falls are associated with severe complications that result in extended hospitalisation and increased fin...