scholarly journals Patient Safety Culture Status and Its Predictors among Healthcare Workers

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 107
Author(s):  
Mengistu Mitiku ◽  
Alemseged Aregay ◽  
Tesfay Hailu
Keyword(s):  
Patient Safety ◽  
Safety Culture ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Healthcare Workers ◽  
Strong Predictor ◽  
Statistical Significance ◽  
Patient Safety Culture ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Northern Ethiopia ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey

<p>Good patient safety culture of healthcare professionals brings about fine consequences for patients. This study, therefore, aimed in evaluating the current status and predictors of safety culture among healthcare workers in Mekelle Zone hospitals, Tigray, Northern Ethiopia. A cross-sectional survey was conducted among 325 healthcare workers in three hospitals of Mekelle city from February to May, 2017. Simple random sampling technique was employed to select study subjects. Data was analyzed using SPSS. Logistic regression was used to determine the predictors of patient safety culture among healthcare workers at 95% confidence level and 5% level of significance. Statistical significance was set at p &lt;0.05. Of the 325 Healthcare workers, 21.6% rated the culture of patient safety as satisfactory and 78.4% rated as unsatisfactory. Old aged healthcare workers (AOR=21.9, 95% of CI: 2.51-61.69) and ‘hospital management support for patient safety’ (AOR=2.68, 95% CI=1.06-6.79) were strong predictor of satisfactory patient safety culture. Satisfactory patient safety culture grade obtained was only 21.6%, indicating that health care professionals are not delivering patient centered service and there is a lot of work to be done in the hospitals to improve culture of patient safety among healthcare workers. </p>

Measuring patient safety culture: A study at a teaching hospital in Ghana

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (6) ◽  
pp. 250-258
Author(s):  
Musilimu Muftawu ◽  
Ece Ugurluoglu Aldogan
Keyword(s):  
Patient Safety ◽  
Teaching Hospital ◽  
Safety Culture ◽  
Healthcare Workers ◽  
Patient Safety Culture ◽  
Healthcare Research ◽  
Average Score ◽  
Management Support ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Event Reporting

Objective This study examined the current patient safety culture from the perspective of healthcare workers in a teaching hospital in Ghana and drew comparison with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 2018 Patient Safety Culture Comparative Database Report. Methods A cross-sectional survey was conducted using the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture developed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. A total of 435 questionnaires were distributed and 322 valid responses were received (a response rate of 74%). The study sample included 178 nurses, 59 doctors, 19 pharmacists, 35 technicians ((laboratory and radiology), and 31 management staff. The Hospital Survey Excel Tool 1.6 and the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 20 were used to analyze the data. Results The overall average score for the 12 dimensions of patient safety culture was 53% which is 12% lower than the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 2018 benchmark report of 65%. The dimension with the highest positive mean score was “Teamwork within Hospital Units” (77%) while the one with the lowest score was “Frequency of Event Reporting” (33%). All 12 domains except for Frequency of Event Reporting ( p = 0.414), Management Support for Patient Safety ( p = 0.823), and Teamwork within Units ( p = 0.070) have significant relationship with patient safety culture. Conclusions Generally, the patient safety culture dimension in the teaching hospital was low. Training of healthcare workers on patient safety and a broad based research including all categories of healthcare staff is highly needed in other to fully understand and change the patient safety culture in Ghanaian Hospitals.

scholarly journals Examining the pathways by which work–life balance influences safety culture among healthcare workers in Taiwan: path analysis of data from a cross-sectional survey on patient safety culture among hospital staff

BMJ Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. e054143
Author(s):  
Yvonne Tran ◽  
Hsun-Hsiang Liao ◽  
En-Hui Yeh ◽  
Louise A Ellis ◽  
Robyn Clay-Williams ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Patient Safety ◽  
Emotional Exhaustion ◽  
Safety Culture ◽  
Healthcare Workers ◽  
Safety Climate ◽  
Patient Safety Culture ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Life Balance

ObjectiveThe aim of this study is to examine the pathways by which work–life balance influences safety climate in hospital settings.DesignA national cross-sectional survey on patient safety culture.SettingsHealthcare workers from 56 hospitals in Taiwan, covering three work settings: intensive care units, operation rooms and emergency departments.Participants14 345 healthcare workers took part in the survey and were included in the present analysis.Primary and secondary outcome measuresThe Safety Attitudes, Maslach’s Burn-out Inventory and Work–life balance questionnaires were used to measure patient safety culture, teamwork, leadership, emotional exhaustion and work–life balance. Path analysis was conducted to determine the relationship between work–life balance and safety climate. We tested for mediating and moderating factors influencing this relationship.ResultsThe path between work–life balance and safety climate was found to be significant (b=0.32, p<0.001) and explained through a serial mediation. This relationship was found to be mediated by emotional exhaustion followed by teamwork climate in a full mediation. Leadership factors such as identifying as a manager, moderated the indirect pathway between work–life balance and safety climate through teamwork climate (index of moderation: b=0.083, bias corrected 95% CI 0.044 to 0.120) but not through emotional exhaustion or the serial pathway. Subgroup analysis from non-managers on their perception of management was also found to moderate this relationship.ConclusionWe found work–life balance to be associated with safety climate through a fully mediated model. The mediation pathways are moderated by self-identified leadership and perceptions of leadership. Understanding the pathways on how work–life balance influences safety climate provides an explanatory model that can be used when designing effective interventions for implementation in system-based approaches to improve patient safety culture in hospital settings.

scholarly journals Negative Behaviors among Healthcare Professionals: Relationship with Patient Safety Culture

Healthcare ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana Layne ◽  
Lynne Nemeth ◽  
Martina Mueller ◽  
Mary Martin
Keyword(s):  
Patient Safety ◽  
Employee Engagement ◽  
Patient Outcomes ◽  
Safety Culture ◽  
Healthcare Workers ◽  
Patient Safety Culture ◽  
Contributing Factors ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Negative Behaviors ◽  
Fear Of Retaliation

Behaviors that undermine a culture of safety within hospitals threaten overall wellbeing of healthcare workers as well as patient outcomes. Existing evidence suggests negative behaviors adversely influence patient outcomes, employee satisfaction, retention, productivity, absenteeism, and employee engagement. Our objective was to examine the presence of negative behaviors within a healthcare system and the influence of negative behaviors among healthcare workers on perceptions of patient safety culture. Using a cross-sectional design, the negative behaviors in healthcare survey (NBHC) and selected composites of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (HSOPS) were combined within an electronic survey which was administered to physicians, clinical and managerial staff. Exposure to contributing factors of negative behaviors was moderately correlated with elements of HSOPS, including perceptions of teamwork within units, management response to error, and overall patient safety grade. Use of aggression and fear of retaliation were moderately correlated with HSOPS management response to error. Reducing healthcare worker exposure to contributing factors of negative behavior may result in increased perceptions of teamwork within a hospital unit, while addressing use of staff aggression and fear of retaliation potentially positively influences management response to error.

scholarly journals The impact of patient safety culture and the leader coaching behaviour of nurses on the intention to report errors: A cross-sectional survey

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zahra Chegini ◽  
Edris Kakemam ◽  
Mohammad Asghari Jafarabadi ◽  
Ali Janati
Keyword(s):  
Patient Safety ◽  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Safety Culture ◽  
Linear Regression Analysis ◽  
Educational Status ◽  
Patient Safety Culture ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Coaching Behavior ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Background: There is growing interest in examining the factors affecting the reporting of errors by nurses. However, little research has been conducted into the effects of perceived patient safety culture and leader coaching of nurses on the intention to report errors. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted amongst 256 nurses in the emergency departments of 18 public and private hospitals in Tabriz, northwest Iran. Participants completed the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (HSOPSC), Coaching Behavior Scale and Intention to Report Errors questionnaires and the data was analyzed using multiple linear regression analysis. Results: Overall, 43% of nurses had an intention to report errors; 50% of respondents reported that their nursing managers demonstrated high levels of coaching. With regard to patient safety culture, areas of strength and weakness were “teamwork within units” (PRR = 66.80%) and “non-punitive response errors” (PRR = 19.66%). Regression analysis findings highlighted a significant association between an intention to report errors and patient safety culture (B=0.123, CI 95%: 0.005 to 0.328, P = 0.026), leader coaching behavior (B=0.172, CI 95%: 0.066 to 0.347, P = 0.004) and nurses’ educational status (B=0. 787, 95% CI: -.064 to 1.638, P = 0.048). Conclusions: Further research is needed to assess how interventions addressing patient safety culture and leader coaching behaviours might increase the intention to report errors.

scholarly journals Patient safety culture and associated factors among health care professionals at public hospitals in Dessie town, north east Ethiopia, 2019

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. e0245966
Author(s):  
Fentaw Mohammed ◽  
Mekuanint Taddele ◽  
Tenaw Gualu
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Patient Safety ◽  
Safety Culture ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Patient Safety Culture ◽  
Public Hospitals ◽  
Emergency Ward ◽  
Good Patient ◽  
North East ◽  
Primary Hospital

Introduction Patient safety culture is defined as the attitudes, perceptions, and values that staffs share within an organization related to patient safety. The safety of health care is now a major global concern. It is likely that millions of people suffer disabling injuries or death directly related to medical care. Particularly in developing and transitional countries, patient harm is a global public health problem. The objective of the study is to assess patient safety culture and associated factors among health care professionals working in public hospitals in Dessie town, North East Ethiopia, 2019. Methods Facility based quantitative study was employed from March 15 –April 30, 2019 in public hospitals in Dessie town. Four hundred and twenty two health care professionals were recruited to complete a structured pretested self-administered questionnaire. The data was cleaned, coded and entered in to Epi Info-7 and exported to SPSS version 20. Data was further analyzed using bivariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses. Variables with P value of less than 0.05 in multivariate analysis were declared as statistically significant at 95% CI. Results Of the 422 recruited a total of 411 participants completed the survey with a response rate of 97.4%. Close to half (184(44.8%)) of the participants indicated good patient safety culture. Good patient safety culture was positively associated with working in primary hospital (AOR = 2.56, 95% CI = 1.56, 4.21). On the other hand, good patient safety culture was negatively associated with health professional’s age between 25–34 year (AOR = 0.25, 95% CI = 0.08–0.74) and working in Pediatrics ward (AOR = 0.39, 95% CI = 0.17–0.9) and in emergency ward (AOR = O.25, 95%CI = 0.09–0.67). Conclusion The overall level of patient safety culture was under 50%. Good patient safety culture had positive association with working in primary hospital and negative association with professionals’ age between 25–29 year, 30–34 year and working in pediatrics and emergency ward. Implementing actions that support all dimensions of safety culture should be promoted at all levels of hospitals.

scholarly journals Patient safety culture regarding intravenous therapy in Guangzhou, China: a cross-sectional survey

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 335-340
Author(s):  
Cui-Hong Ji ◽  
Fei-Hua Xu ◽  
Shan Pan
Keyword(s):  
Patient Safety ◽  
Safety Culture ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Drug Efficacy ◽  
Patient Safety Culture ◽  
Intravenous Therapy ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Tertiary Hospitals ◽  
Training Resources

Abstract Objective To investigate the patient safety culture regarding intravenous therapy in parts of tertiary hospitals in Guangzhou, China. Methods A cross-sectional survey was conducted. A total of 333 medical staffs members from eight hospitals in Guangzhou were included in our study using convenience sampling. An evaluation about the patient safety culture regarding intravenous therapy was conducted. Results The summarized results show that the total and level one items’ scores are greater than 4.3 points (the full mark is 5 points). The lowest scoring of the five level one items is for the hospital’s security resources (4.53±0.526), and the highest is for the hospital’s safety management commitment (4.65±0.445). Among the 25 secondary entries, the four lowest-scoring entries are “doctors who can master the knowledge of drug efficacy and adverse reactions” (4.44±0.622), “doctors who can master the knowledge of the choice of medicine” (4.45±0.621), “a guarantee of sufficient human resources” (4.46±0.647), and “doctors who can master the knowledge related to the observation and complications with the treatment of intravenous therapy operation” (4.435±0.634). Conclusions The patient safety culture regarding intravenous treatment in parts of tertiary hospitals in Guangzhou is promising, but there are still shortcomings, including the need to increase relevant resources, such as equipment facilities, training resources, and especially human input.

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