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This study aimed to describe how parents of infants in the NICU conceptualise patient safety and what kinds of concerns they have about safety.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>This mixed-methods study employed questionnaires, interviews and observation with parents of infant patients in an academic medical centre NICU. Measures included parent stress, family-centredness and types of safety concerns.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>46 parents completed questionnaires and 14 of these parents also participated in 10 interviews (including 4 couple interviews). Infants had a range of medical and surgical problems, including prematurity, congenital diaphragmatic hernia and congenital cardiac disease. Parents were positive about their infants\u2019 care and had low levels of concern about the safety of procedures. Parents reporting more stress had more concerns. We identified three overlapping domains in parents' conceptualisations of safety in the NICU, including physical, developmental and emotional safety. Parents demonstrated sophisticated understanding of how environmental, treatment and personnel factors could potentially influence their infants\u2019 developmental and emotional health.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>Parents have safety concerns that cannot be addressed solely by reducing errors in the NICU. Parent engagement strategies that respect parents as partners in safety and address how clinical treatment articulates with physical, developmental and emotional safety domains may result in safety improvements.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1136\/bmjqs-2014-003009","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2014,6,27]],"date-time":"2014-06-27T00:23:15Z","timestamp":1403828595000},"page":"902-909","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1136\/crossmarkpolicy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":29,"title":["Parents\u2019 perspectives on safety in neonatal intensive care: a mixed-methods study"],"prefix":"10.1136","volume":"23","author":[{"given":"Audrey","family":"Lyndon","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Family Health Care Nursing, University of California San Francisco School of Nursing, San Francisco, California, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Carrie H","family":"Jacobson","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Family Health Care Nursing, University of California San Francisco School of Nursing, San Francisco, California, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Kelly M","family":"Fagan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital, San Francisco, California, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Kirsten","family":"Wisner","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital, Salinas, California, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Linda S","family":"Franck","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Family Health Care Nursing, University of California San Francisco School of Nursing, San Francisco, California, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"239","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2014,6,26]]},"reference":[{"key":"2025090414104464000_23.11.902.1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1369-7625.2011.00685.x"},{"key":"2025090414104464000_23.11.902.2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1055\/s-0031-1286182"},{"key":"2025090414104464000_23.11.902.3","unstructured":"Conway JB Celenza J Abraham MR . 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