Construction of a bundle for the safety of patients with mental disorders during hospitalization.
Marina Diva de Oliveira, Camila Souza de Almeida, Helen Cristiny Teodoro Couto Ribeiro and 2 others
PMID 39813572WHAT IT FOUND
A hospital safety bundle for patients with mental disorders groups care into safety culture, clinical decision-making, intervention planning and interpersonal violence.
It is a proposed checklist, not a tested intervention.
Key findings
01The scoping review's final sample consisted of 26 studies.
02The bundle was structured into four categories: safety culture, clinical decision-making, intervention planning and interpersonal violence.
03The mapped studies covered medication safety, night nursing observations, falls, self-harm or suicide, discharge planning and interpersonal violence.
STILL TO COME
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What it does not show
The review was time-limited, so newer studies were not included. Studies that did not use the term patient safety may have been missed. No patients were recruited and no outcomes were measured, so the bundle was not tested. The included studies were few and came from a small number of countries, mostly in English.
Declared interests
The supplied text does not report authors' conflicts or funding, but the publication type lists non-U.S. government research support.
The easy way to misread this
Do not treat the bundle as proven to reduce adverse events or improve safety. It was constructed from a scoping review of existing studies, not tested in patients.