Evaluation of Patient Safety Indicators in Semnan City Hospitals by Using the Patient Safety Friendly Hospital Initiative (PSFHI)
| Autor: | Monir Nobahar, Seifullah Keighobady, Hassan Babamohamadi, Roghayeh Khabiri Nemati, Soheila Ghazavi, Zhila Najafpour, Farideh Izadi-Sabet |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Strategic planning
Protocol (science) business.industry Liability MEDLINE General Medicine medicine.disease Iranian hospitals safety standards Article Patient safety Nursing patient safety friendly hospital initiative (PSFHI) Medicine Medical emergency Safety culture Descriptive research Enforcement business |
| Zdroj: | Global Journal of Health Science |
| ISSN: | 1916-9744 1916-9736 |
| DOI: | 10.5539/gjhs.v8n8p1 |
| Popis: | BACKGROUND: Nowadays, patient safety issue is among one of the main concerns of the hospital policy worldwide. This study aimed to evaluate the patient safety status in hospitals affiliated to Semnan city, using the WHO model for Patient Safety Friendly Hospital Initiatives (PSFHI) in summer 2014.METHODS: That was a cross sectional descriptive study that addressed patient safety , which explained the current status of safety in the Semnan hospitals using by instrument of Patient safety friendly initiative standards (PSFHI). Data was collected from 5 hospitals in Semnan city during four weeks in May 2014.RESULTS: The finding of 5 areas examined showed that some components in critical standards had disadvantages. Critical standards of hospitals including areas of leadership and administration, patient and public involvement and safe evidence-based clinical practice, safe environment with and lifetime education in a safe and secure environment were analyzed. The domain of patient and public involvement obtained the lowest mean score and the domain of safe environment obtained the highest mean score in the surveyed hospitals.CONCLUSION: All the surveyed hospitals had a poor condition regarding standards based on patient safety. Further, the identified weak points are almost the same in the hospitals. Therefore, In order to achieve a good level of all aspects of the protocol, the goals should be considered in the level of strategic planning at hospitals. An effective execution of patient safety creatively may depend on the legal infrastructure and enforcement of standards by hospital management, organizational liability to expectation of patients, safety culture in hospitals. |
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