Abstract

Objective: To measure patient safety culture and some factors influence in 12 areas relating to patient care in Pham Ngoc Thach Hospital. Methods: Cross-sectional research. The Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (HSOPSC) questionnaire of the Agency of Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) version Vietnamese was used in this survey. All medical staff working in the Pham Ngoc Thach Hospital were asked to complete the questionnaire. We employed the software Stata 16.0 and Microsoft Excel 2010 to perform the statistical analysis of the survey data. Average positive response rate in 12 patient safety culture dimensions in Pham Ngoc Thach Hospital was 75%, higher than in Taiwan (64%). Worthy of note were the high positive response rates observed in the following areas: Teamwork within units (94%), manager views and actions promoting patient safety (91%), management support for patient safety, learning-continuous improvement (89%), and feedback and communication about errors (85,6%). However, there were three areas that still received many negative responses and showed room for improvement such as handoff, transitions, staffing, and non-punitive response to errors. The survey in Pham Ngoc Thach Hospital which provides an overview of the patient safety culture in the hospital. Although most medical staff had positive responses regarding patient safety in many areas relating to patient care within their departments as well as in the whole hospital, but there were still areas that had a low positive response and needed to be improved.

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