Patient Safety: Cost Implications of Adverse Health Events

The Relationship between Patient Safety Culture and Adverse Events among Nurses in Tehran Teaching Hospitals in 2019

Introduction: Patient safety culture has been identified as one of the important factors in reducing hospital adverse events and improving patient safety. The present study was conducted to investigate the relationship between patient safety culture and adverse events among nurses of selected teaching hospitals in Tehran. Methods: This cross-sectional study was performed in 2019 on 260 nurses ...

Relationship between Patient Safety Culture and Adverse Events in Hospital: A case study

Abstract Introduction: Patient safety culture is an important factor in reducing hospital's adverse event and improving patient safety. The aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship between patient safety culture and adverse events in hospitals of Hamadan city. Methods: The present study was a descriptive-analytical study which was performed in hospitals of Hamadan in 2018. The stu...

Disturbing the Doxa of Patient Safety; Comment on “False Dawns and New Horizons in Patient Safety Research and Practice”

In a recent edition of this journal, Mannion and Braithwaite provide a succinct analysis of the emergence, and ultimately limited impact, of what they term the current ‘Safety I’ movement in healthcare. They describe the arc of this field from denial, through engagement via mechanisms and approaches imported from other industries, to the current situation where, despite ‘best efforts,’ error ra...

False Dawns and New Horizons in Patient Safety Research and Practice

In response to a weight of evidence that patients are frequently harmed as a result of their care, there have been concerted efforts to make healthcare safer, with health systems across the globe investing significant resources in policies and programmes designed to reduce adverse events. Yet, despite extensive efforts, improvements in safety have proved difficult to sustain and spread, with st...

Measuring medical errors and adverse events in a hospital using global trigger tool

Background: Medical errors are those mistakes committed by healthcare professionals due to wrong execution of a planned healthcare action or execution of a wrong healthcare action plan whether or not it is harmful to the patient. Medical errors may cause patients to suffer and have huge financial costs for the healthcare system. Identifying and measuring medical errors and adverse events are es...

Where is Patient Safety Research and Practice Heading? A Response to Recent Commentaries