Patient Safety Culture Challenges: Survey Results of Iranian Educational Hospitals Publisher



Bahrami MA^{1, 2} ; Montazeralfaraj R² ; Chalak M¹ ; Tafti AD³ ; Tehrani GA¹ ; Ardakani SE¹
Source: Middle East Journal of Scientific Research Published:2013

Abstract

Patient safety culture is defined as the integration of safety thinking and practices into clinical activities. The objective of this study was to measure patient safety culture in 2 Iran teaching hospitals. In a cross-sectional survey, we used hospital survey on patient safety culture in 2 teaching hospitals of Yazd, Iran in 2011 and 2012. Study population was comprised of these hospitals nurses. A total of 270 surveys were distributed to all randomly-selected nurses from different units. Data analysis was done using SPSS software version 13. Research findings showed that booth hospitals have low to average scores in all dimensions of patient safety culture with except of organizational learning (continuous improvement) in Shahid Saddoughi burning hospital. Staffing (19.45% positive response), non-punitive response to error (21.46% positive response) and frequency of events reported (34.9% positive response) in Afshar and frequency of events reported (16.66% positive response), staffing (25.00% positive response) and non-punitive response to error (25% positive response) are the lowest scores of patient safety culture dimensions in studied hospitals. Only organizational learning (75.00% positive score) in Shahid Saddoughi burning hospital has high score. Also, only, 41.20 and 25.00 percent of nurses in Afshar and Shahid Saddoughi burning hospitals evaluated the patient safety grade of their hospital as excellent and very good. Our study demonstrated the challenge of patient safety culture in educational hospitals that needs urgent attention. © IDOSI Publications, 2013.