Background Speaking up is important for patient safety, but often, health care professionals
hesitate to voice concerns. Understanding the influencing factors can help to improve …

Safety voice is the act of speaking up about safety in order to prevent accidents and physical
harm. It occurs across contexts (eg, healthcare, aviation, construction, mountaineering, high …

Background Open communication between healthcare professionals about care concerns,
also known as 'speaking up', is essential to patient safety. Objective Compare interns' and …

Background Research suggests that “silence”, ie, not voicing safety concerns, is common
among health care professionals (HCPs). Speaking up about patient safety is vital to avoid …

Background Despite widespread emphasis on promoting 'assertive communication'by care
givers as essential to patient-safety-improvement efforts, little is known about when and how …

Objectives We sought to examine the association between willingness of health-care
professionals to speak up about patient safety concerns and their perceptions of two types of …

Healthcare is delivered in an extraordinary complex environment. Despite highly skilled,
dedicated clinicians, there are currently unacceptably high levels of communication failures …

The experience of childbirth is one of the most corporeal of the human condition. Against a
backdrop of profound change in the milieu of birthing over the past 30 years, especially in …

Effective communication is a hallmark of safe patient care. Challenges to effective
interprofessional communication in maternity care include differing professional …

Purpose To investigate the likelihood of speaking up about patient safety in oncology and to
clarify the effect of clinical and situational context factors on the likelihood of voicing …