Evaluation of Patient Safety Indicators in Semnan City Hospitals by Using the Patient Safety Friendly Hospital Initiative (PSFHI).

Hassan Babamohamadi,Zhila Najafpour,Roghayeh Khabiri Nemati,Farideh Izadi-Sabet,Seifullah Keighobady,Soheila Ghazavi,Monir Nobahar

doi:10.5539/gjhs.v8n8p1

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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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1.1 Introduce the ProblemFollowing the Institute of Medicine (IO report which revealed the extent of harm caused by healthcare, patient safety was put on the policy agenda of healthcare systems worldwide (Kohn et al, 2000; Evanoff et al, 2001)
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
Researches supporting evidence on patient safety is currently little in developing countries and i countries with economies in the transfer (Aghaei et al, 2014) and there is a few issued evidence from Iran that estimates the range of adverse events in health care settings (Moghri et al, 2012)

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Following the Institute of Medicine (IO report which revealed the extent of harm caused by healthcare, patient safety was put on the policy agenda of healthcare systems worldwide (Kohn et al, 2000; Evanoff et al, 2001). Researches supporting evidence on patient safety is currently little in developing countries and i countries with economies in the transfer (Aghaei et al, 2014) and there is a few issued evidence from Iran that estimates the range of adverse events in health care settings (Moghri et al, 2012). Patient safety is a critical subject of health care quality. Today’s patient safety is a priority for all health care systems that strive to ensure patient safety and meliorate quality of care. 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

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