Major ArticlesOrganizational and environmental factors that affect worker health and safety and patient outcomes☆
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Background
A wealth of literature exists on how health care workers experience job- and work-environment-related stressors that adversely affect their safety and health. Studies have identified many stressors, including role ambiguity, role conflict, heavy workload, pressure, and physical discomforts.2Work stress has been shown to result in job dissatisfaction, burnout (physical, emotional, and mental exhaustion), staff turnover, occupational illness and injuries, reduced mental health, depression, and
Outcomes: Effects of organizational and environmental factors on workers and patients
The link between organization of health services or institutions and patient outcomes is rarely tested empirically. Studies on the organizational structure of health care and studies on patient outcomes have been performed independently. The most commonly studied outcome variables are hospital costs; occupancy rates; service mix; and staff outcomes such as job satisfaction, turnover, and vacancy rates. The appropriateness of various outcomes, such as mortality and complication rates, as
Conclusion
The multi agency Quality Interagency Coordination Tack Force (QuIC) coordinates activities and plans for quality measurement and improvement across all US federal agencies involved in health care. In October 2000. QuIC convened a conference to examine how health care workplace quality influences the quality and safety of patient care. There was general consensus at this meeting on the need for a serious, evidence-based approach to identify opportunities to improve the quality of the health care
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