Background and Objectives: Patient safety (PS) is one of the most important and essential elements of quality in healthcare setting. A systematic review and meta-analysis was performed to assess the status of patient safety culture using the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (HSOPSC). Methods: In this systematic review and meta-analysis study, data were collected through searching dat...

Background: Infants hospitalized in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) are often severely ill, highly prone to various diseases, and exposed to complex and prolonged intensive care interventions. Consequently, they are susceptible to the lapses in teamwork and patient safety. Patient safety culture a fundamental step to improve patient safety. The present study aimed to evaluate the perspect...

Background and purpose: The basic responsibility of nurses is to maintain patient safety including notifying patients and colleagues about risk and risk reduction methods, supporting the patient safety and reporting events to a responsible person. Without creating a safety culture in all health facilities a sustainable development in the patient care do not occur. This study aims to determine t...

evaluating patient safety culture in personnel of academic hospitals in urmia university of medical sciences in 2011     baghaei r [1] , nourani d [2] * , khalkhali hr [3] , pirnejad h [4]     received: 10 oct , 2011 accepted: 2 jan , 2012   abstract   background & aims : healthcare organizations in iran are striving to improve patient safety and quality of care through implementation of safety...

introduction: health care organizations, especially hospitals, must focus on patient safety as their main strategy. cultural change is the most important challenge that they are faced with in creating a safe system. the present article aims to improve the patient safety culture with an assessment of the safety in fatemeh zahra hospital, najafabad, iran. methods: this descriptive and cross-secti...

background: in recent decades, patient safety has become a high priority health system issue, due to the high potential of occurring adverse events in health facilities. objectives: this study was aimed to survey patient safety culture in 2 iranian educational hospitals. materials and methods: in a descriptive, cross-sectional survey, a hospital survey on patient safety culture, was used in two...