title: [Can Quality of Patient Identification be Influenced by Training? - Results of a Randomised Multicentre Study with Multimodal Intervention].
abstract: Background:Attributing clinical care to patients unambiguously is a precondition for patient safety. The German Coalition for Patient Safety has published a recommendation on this topic.Issue:The here presented study examined whether and to what extent documentation quality as one determining factor of correct patient identification can be improved positively by inter-professional training.Method:In our randomised multi-centric study physicians and nurses from 8 units in 4 hospitals were trained. The control group consisted of untrained unit teams. Effects of the intervention were measured by investigating documentation errors in clinical records before and after the training.Results:As a result of our intervention the number of documents with documentation errors/patient charts could be reduced by 37.3% (p<0.001).Conclusion:The results of the study point to the training of recommendations on preventing errors as an effective instrument for the improvement of patient safety.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Patientensicherheit (IfPS), Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lessing
authors.affiliation: Institut für Patientensicherheit (IfPS), Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Bonn.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Straß
authors.affiliation: Vivantes, Qualitätsmanagement, Berlin.
authors.forename: H-J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Standke
authors.affiliation: Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB), Zentrum für Medizinische Lehre (ZML), Bochum.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lux
mesh_terms: D000068598:Data Accuracy; D004282:Documentation / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D057286:Electronic Health Records / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D007318:Inservice Training / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D008297:Male; D019300:Medical Errors / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D061214:Patient Safety / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000379:methods; D016896:Treatment Outcome