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Health Care Professionals' Role in Developing Quality and Patient Safety
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Health Care Professionals' Role in Developing Quality and Patient Safety

A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032). This special issue belongs to the section "Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 November 2025 | Viewed by 608

Special Issue Editor

Prof. Dr. Hartwig Marung

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Faculty of Health Sciences, MSH Medical School Hamburg, 20457 Hamburg, Germany
Interests: patient safety; never events; second victim phenomenon; emergency medical services

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The World Health Organizations’ “Global Patient Safety Action Plan 2021-2030” states very clearly that avoidable errors related to the delivery of healthcare constitute a major challenge for quality and patient safety.

For this reason, we are pleased to invite you to contribute a scientific paper to this Special Issue, entitled “Health Care Professionals' Role in Developing Quality and Patient Safety”.

This Special Issues aims to present best-practice examples for improving quality and safety from a broad perspective: from prehospital management to primary care and community-based healthcare providers.

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome to be submitted. Research areas may include, but are not limited to, the following:

  1. Healthcare professionals’ education and performance for enhancing healthcare practices;
  2. Patient involvement in creating safe systems;
  3. Establishing safe hand-overs in healthcare facilities;
  4. Optimizing clinical processes;
  5. Steps towards establishing a safety culture in healthcare;
  6. Measuring patient safety outcomes;

I look forward to receiving your contributions.

Prof. Dr. Hartwig Marung
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Healthcare is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2700 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • patient safety
  • quality management
  • safety culture
  • patient involvement
  • safety outcomes

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Interventions to Improve Compliance to Surgical Safety Checklist Use: Before-and-After Study at a Tertiary Public Hospital in Croatia
by Jure Krstulović, Zrinka Hrgović, Ante Krešo, Ante Tavra, Ljubo Znaor and Ana Marušić
Healthcare 2025, 13(16), 1959; https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare13161959 - 10 Aug 2025
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Background/Objectives: The World Health Organization’s Surgical Safety Checklist (WHO SSC) is known to reduce surgical complications and mortality, yet its implementation remains inconsistent across institutions. This study evaluated compliance with a modified SSC and assessed the impact of structured interventions to improve adherence [...] Read more.
Background/Objectives: The World Health Organization’s Surgical Safety Checklist (WHO SSC) is known to reduce surgical complications and mortality, yet its implementation remains inconsistent across institutions. This study evaluated compliance with a modified SSC and assessed the impact of structured interventions to improve adherence at the University Hospital of Split, Croatia. Methods: A before-and-after study analyzed a sample of 1437 completed SSCs over four time points between April 2024 and May 2025: the baseline and after three successive interventions (an official letter from the hospital director emphasizing mandatory SSC use, individual meetings with department heads and head nurses reinforcing its importance, and a quality audit review of SSC completeness with leadership). Checklist completeness was assessed across five SSC sections: General Information, Sign In, Time Out, Sign Out, and Staff Info. Results: Overall checklist completeness increased from 78.3 ± 8.5% at baseline to 86.3 ± 2.5%, 92.0 ± 3.8%, and 94.7 ± 4.8% after the first, second, and third interventions, respectively (p < 0.001). All checklist sections improved significantly: General Info rose from 91.1 ± 6.0% to 98.6 ± 2.6% (p < 0.001); Sign In from 85.0 ± 11.4% to 97.0 ± 3.5% (p = 0.002); Time Out from 79.0 ± 14.6% to 96.4 ± 6.5% (p < 0.001); Sign Out from 70.2 ± 11.2% to 87.7 ± 11.0% (p = 0.003); and Staff Info from 70.7 ± 12.9% to 100.0 ± 0.0% (p < 0.001). Post hoc testing confirmed significant gains versus baseline for all three interventions (Dunnett’s test), with a further significant improvement between the first and third interventions (Tukey’s HSD, p = 0.011). Conclusions: Structured, low-cost interventions emphasizing administrative support, education, and communication significantly improved SSC adherence across a large tertiary hospital. This initiative represents a pioneering effort in Croatia and offers a scalable model for similar public healthcare systems aiming to enhance patient safety. Full article
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