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Title: Influence of hospital leadership styles on patient safety indicators
Other Titles: Title registration for a systematic review : influence of hospital leadership styles on patient safety indicators
Authors: Buttigieg, Sandra C.
Cassar, Vincent
Said, Emanuel
Grech, Elaine Marie
Tomaselli, Gianpaolo
Keywords: Medical policy -- Case studies
Hospitals -- Administration -- Case studies
Patient satisfaction
Issue Date: 2018
Publisher: The Campbell Collaboration
Citation: Buttigieg, S.C., Cassar, V., Said, E., Grech, E., & Tomaselli, G. (2018). Influence of hospital leadership styles on patient safety indicators. In Title registration for a systematic review: Influence of hospital leadership styles on patient safety indicators, (pp. 1-12). The Campbell Collaboration
Abstract: Improving patient safety within hospitals requires clarity of leadership at all levels (West, Borrill, & Dawson, 2003; Boamah, Read, & Spence Laschinger, 2017), both vertically as well as horizontally. The leadership styles which are more commonly associated with wellperforming hospital are transformational leadership (Frich, Brewster, Cherlin, & Bradley, 2015), authentic leadership (Alilyyani, Wong, & Cummings, 2018) and distributed leadership (Martin, Beech, MacIntosh, & Bushfield, 2015). More recently, in view of hospitals being considered as complex adaptive systems, adaptive leadership style is gaining in importance (Choong, Durrington, & Kane, 2017). A major aspect of performance of hospitals is linked to the ability of leaders to enable the creation of patient safety cultures (DiCuccio, 2015). The Institute of Medicine (IOM) defines patient safety as “the prevention of harm to patients” implying a broad focus on a system of care delivery aiming at:(i) preventing errors;(ii) learning from existing errors; and (iii) building on a culture of safety that involves health care professionals at various levels, organizations, and patients. However, there is still a fragmented perspective of patient safety, with literature focusing on a narrow set of aspects (eg medical errors and surgical procedural errors among others). Indeed, we observe a relative dearth of a comprehensive conceptualisation of patient safety within hospitals. Likewise, operationalisation of patient safety is scant with current key indicators focusing on specific aspects of the construct and largely at the micro-system level.
URI: https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/86186
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