Abstract
Objective: Describe the views and opinions of health staffs and analyse some related factors on patient safety culture at the National Children's Hospital in 2020-2021. Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive study was performed on 252 medical staffs of the National Children's Hospital from October 1st, 2020 to May 31st, 2021. Results: The percentage of medical staffs with a positive feedback about the overall patient safety culture was 67.5%. The high rate of positive responses were in the areas of faculty feedback and communication (97.6%); views and actions of managers (97.6%); general awareness of patient safety (94.4%) and the relationship and working with the team in the same department (96.2%). Some feedbacks are not active in areas such as open communication (73%), personnel (61.5%), culture of punishment when making mistakes (44.4%) and frequency of recording receive incidents (19.4%). Factors related to patient safety culture are the number of years of medical staff experience (OR= 2.56, CI 95%: 1.46- 4.5), average working hours (OR=6.3, CI 95%: 1.83 - 22.01), department facilities (OR=3.06, CI 95%: 1,7- 5.52), and patient safety training (OR=3 .64, CI 95%: 1.66-7.98). Keywords: Patients safety culture, health staff, National Children's Hospital.
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