Abstract
This paper investigated Relationship between High Performance work system and patient safety in Saudi Arabia Public Hospitals. Patient safety is a critical indicator of the quality of healthcare system, and reflects the degree to which performances comply with systems and guidelines which haven’t negative impact on patient health. High performance work system which is designed to enhance employees’ commitment and skills and ultimately improve organizational performance. The aim of this study is the analyzing of high performance work system and patient safety in Saudi Arabia hospitals. In order to achieve the study objective in the present study, a cross-sectional survey design using a self-administered questionnaire will be carried out. Questionnaires distributed to the nurses managers in Saudi Arabia Hospitals. A quantitative research design was adopted to collect data. Out of 254 questionnaires returned which are content to 202 questionnaires returned from 112 general hospitals and 52 from 33 specialist hospitals only 217 questionnaires used for analysis. The Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM). The findings showed the relationship between High Performance work system and patient safety was positively supported.
Highlights
Patient safety has become a significant topic among health professionals, policy makers, and the public owing to the emphasis on the reported and unreported healthcare errors that result in negative situations
Patient safety in the hospitals expressed either in terms of number of patients acquired adverse events or costs of treatment and compensations are considered as real problems in Saudi Arabia as is the case in many countries worldwide
It is expected that patient safety is interrelated with a complicated web of factors including High performance work system (HPWS), leadership and organization climate
Summary
Patient safety has become a significant topic among health professionals, policy makers, and the public owing to the emphasis on the reported and unreported healthcare errors that result in negative situations. Several initiatives and studies dedicated to patient safety have been conducted in the Western countries that are characterized by well-organized healthcare systems and effectively implemented quality assurance programs (Al Rifai, 2008). Developing countries lack the infrastructure required for the implementation and lack resources to tackle patient safety. On the basis of the report of the World Health Organization (WHO, 2004), deficiencies in healthcare systems in terms of infrastructure, lack of skilled personnel and other quality issues are still prevalent in the developing countries. Health professionals are increasingly required to incorporate patient safety principles and concepts into their everyday practice (World Health Organization, 2009). On the frontline of the health care professionals, nurses are placed ideally to ensure the safety and quality within health care because of their unique proximity to patients. Researchers have addressed recently that the great majority of nurses as well as www.ccsenet.org/ijbm
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