scholarly journals Patient Safety: A Deep Concern to Caregivers

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
AK Mohiuddin
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Patient Safety ◽  
Safety Culture ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Health Care Quality ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Patient Safety Culture ◽  
Care Quality ◽  
Care Giving ◽  
Essential Components

Patient safety is a global concern and is the most important domains of health-care quality. Medical error is a major patient safety concern, causing increase in health-care cost due to mortality, morbidity, or prolonged hospital stay. A definition for patient safety has emerged from the health care quality movement that is equally abstract, with various approaches to the more concrete essential components. Patient safety was defined by the IOM as “the prevention of harm to patients.” Emphasis is placed on the system of care delivery that prevents errors; learns from the errors that do occur; and is built on a culture of safety that involves health care professionals, organizations, and patients. Patient safety culture is a complex phenomenon. Patient safety culture assessments, required by international accreditation organizations, allow healthcare organizations to obtain a clear view of the patient safety aspects requiring urgent attention, identify the strengths and weaknesses of their safety culture, help care giving units identify their existing patient safety problems, and benchmark their scores with other hospitals.   Article Type: Commentary

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.

Linking Patient Safety Culture to Quality Ratings in the Nursing Home Setting

2020 ◽  
pp. 073346482096928
Author(s):  
Naomi Yount ◽  
Katarzyna A. Zebrak ◽  
Theresa Famolaro ◽  
Joann Sorra ◽  
Rebecca Birch
Keyword(s):  
Patient Safety ◽  
Nursing Home ◽  
Nursing Homes ◽  
Safety Culture ◽  
Health Care Quality ◽  
Patient Safety Culture ◽  
Care Quality ◽  
Home Setting ◽  
Star Rating ◽  
Quality Ratings

There is limited evidence on the associations between patient safety culture and measures of health care quality in nursing homes. This study examines the relationship between scores on the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Surveys on Patient Safety Culture™ (SOPS®) Nursing Home Survey (NH SOPS) and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Nursing Home Five-Star Quality Ratings. Using data from 186 nursing homes, we conducted multiple regression analyses predicting the Five-Star Quality Ratings from the NH SOPS survey measures. Five NH SOPS measures were related to the Overall, Health Inspections, and Quality Five-Star Ratings. Four NH SOPS measures were related to at least two of the four Five-Star Quality Ratings and three SOPS measures were related to one Five-Star Rating. None of the NH SOPS measures were significantly associated with the Staffing Five-Star Rating. Findings generally indicated that stronger patient safety culture is associated with higher quality ratings.

scholarly journals Linguistic Validation and Cultural Adaptation of Bulgarian Version of Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (HSOPSC)

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. 925-930 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rumyana Stoyanova ◽  
Rositsa Dimova ◽  
Miglena Tarnovska ◽  
Tatyana Boeva
Keyword(s):  
Patient Safety ◽  
Safety Culture ◽  
Health Care Quality ◽  
High Reliability ◽  
Patient Safety Culture ◽  
Care Quality ◽  
Rank Test ◽  
Cronbach’S Alpha ◽  
Linguistic Validation ◽  
Cronbach's Alpha

BACKGROUND: Patient safety (PS) is one of the essential elements of health care quality and a priority of healthcare systems in most countries. Thus the creation of validated instruments and the implementation of systems that measure patient safety are considered to be of great importance worldwide.AIM: The present paper aims to illustrate the process of linguistic validation, cross-cultural verification and adaptation of the Bulgarian version of the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (B-HSOPSC) and its test-retest reliability.METHODS: The study design is cross-sectional. The HSOPSC questionnaire consists of 42 questions, grouped in 12 different subscales that measure patient safety culture. Internal con­sistency was assessed using Cronbach’s alpha. The Wilcoxon signed-rank test and the split-half method were used; the Spear­man-Brown coefficient was calculated.RESULTS: The overall Cronbach’s alpha for B-HSOPSC is 0.918. Subscales 7 Staffing and 12 Overall perceptions of safety had the lowest coefficients. The high reliability of the instrument was confirmed by the Split-half method (0.97) and ICC-coefficient (0.95).  The lowest values of Spearmen-Broun coefficients were found in items A13 and A14.CONCLUSION: The study offers an analysis of the results of the linguistic validation of the B-HSOPSC and its test-retest reliability. The psychometric characteristics of the questions revealed good validity and reliability, except two questions. In the future, the instrument will be administered to the target population in the main study so that the psychometric properties of the instrument can be verified.

scholarly journals Patient safety: within the reach of the homeless?

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Felicialle Pereira da Silva ◽  
Elizandra Cássia da Silva ◽  
Adriana Lopes Ferreira ◽  
Iracema da Silva Frazão
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Patient Safety ◽  
Adverse Events ◽  
Safety Culture ◽  
Hospital Care ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Population Group ◽  
Patient Safety Culture ◽  
Access To Health Services ◽  
Access To Health

ABSTRACT Objectives: to reflect on aspects related to homeless patients’ safety. Methods: this is a reflective theoretical essay based on patient safety theories. Results: the patient safety culture has developed in the hospital care context and seeks to reduce adverse events in specific hospital settings. On the streets, there is evidence that many people suffer damage related to lack of access to health services, which contributes to undiagnosed or untreated diseases. To build the safety culture it is necessary to identify risks and errors in this scenario since health safety should not start only when hospitalizing an individual. Final Considerations: public policies for this population group need to be effective, as this issue should be a priority concern in health care to prevent harm and adverse events during care delivery.

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>

HEALTHCARE QUALITY & PATIENT SAFETY (HQPS): AN EXPERIENCE AT INDIAN HOSPITAL, MONUSCO, D R CONGO

2021 ◽  
pp. 33-35
Author(s):  
Sushil Kumar ◽  
PK Dash ◽  
Gurdarshdeep Singh Madan
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Patient Safety ◽  
Health Care Quality ◽  
Care Quality ◽  
Care Staff ◽  
Health Care Staff ◽  
Safety Standards ◽  
Quality Patient Care ◽  
Safety And Health ◽  
Quality And Patient Safety

Maintaining health care quality and patient safety standards are essential for providing high quality patient care while ensuring safety to both patient and health care staff. DHMOSH requires all UN medical establishments to comply with HQPS standards which are derived from JCI specication. Our hospital is highest eld medical echelon in the UN. Patient safety and health care quality is not a destination but a continuous journey and this article intends to share the journey of the hospital through challenges faced, undergoing course correction and nally successfully undergoing HQPS assessment during ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

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