Table 2.
Proportion of agreement with the perception of patient safety improvement, according to MMC operational characteristics
| MMCs contribute to improving patient safety | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| If characteristic is absent N a (%) | If characteristic is present N a (%) | p | |
| Formalization | |||
| Written charter | 38 (53.6) | 412 (65.8) | 0.049 |
| Yearly activity report | 76 (59.8) | 374 (65.6) | 0.22 |
| List of participants | 76 (63.9) | 374 (64.7) | 0.92 |
| Exhaustiveness of meeting minutes | 57 (62.64) | 393 (64.9) | 0.73 |
| Prior dissemination of meeting agenda | 156 (59.1) | 291 (68.0) | 0.02 |
| Established meeting schedule | 248 (65.4) | 202 (63.5) | 0.63 |
| Standardized presentation using slides | 153 (57.9) | 297 (68.6) | 0.005 |
| Content, analysis | |||
| Failures are | |||
| examined | 24 (42.1) | 426 (66.6) | <0.001 |
| and thoroughly analysed | 292 (61.3) | 158 (71.5) | 0.01 |
| Few cases presented (<19) | 206 (59.2) | 244 (69.9) | 0.03 |
| Longer meetings (>80 min) | 234 (63.9) | 216 (65.3) | 0.75 |
| Thematic meetings organized | 359 (63.0) | 91 (71.6) | 0.07 |
| Attendance rates (if greater than the median) | |||
| Senior physicians | 226 (64.2) | 224 (64.9) | 0.87 |
| Head nurses | 255 (63.6) | 195 (65.9) | 0.57 |
| Nurses | 195 (62.1) | 255 (66.6) | 0.23 |
| Older group (≥4 years of experience) | 198 (65.13) | 252 (64.12) | 0.81 |
| Improvement initiatives | |||
| Effectiveness index (≥10)b | 185 (59.5) | 265 (68.6) | 0.01 |
| Number of initiatives (>2) | 144 (60.8) | 306 (66.5) | 0.13 |
aCount of "totally agree" responses
bThe effectiveness index was a composite score based on planning, implementation, and assessment of improvement initiatives