title: Creating a safer workplace to provide quality care.
abstract: In recent years, increasing interest has been placed on how health care workers can be trained and equipped to better protect them from possible workplace accidents and injuries while improving the care they deliver. Better workplace safety also means better customer and employee satisfaction, improved workforce retention and recruitment, and cost savings. Workplace safety is constantly evolving and addresses a whole host of issues ranging from needles and sharps injuries to moving patients to human factor analyses. This issue takes a cross-sectional look at how hospitals and health systems are addressing problem areas--and sharing information and best practices--to strengthen their quality of care at the workplace level.
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Simmons
mesh_terms: D006804:Ergonomics; D015386:Hazardous Substances; D006282:Health Personnel; D006801:Humans; D016602:Needlestick Injuries / Q000517:prevention & control; D016272:Occupational Health; D015279:Organizational Culture; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D017751:Safety Management; D014481:United States; D016270:United States Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000517:prevention & control
chemical_list: D015386:Hazardous Substances