Attitudes of Healthcare Professionals toward Patient Safety in the Operating Room
Authors
Abstract:
Background & Aims: Patient safety is considered to be an inherent element of healthcare quality. Unsafe attitudes of healthcare employees are a major issue for healthcare providers in promoting the quality of care, which is closely correlated with the occurrence of hospital errors and incidents. On the other hand, development of optimal patient safety is not possible without establishing safety attitudes in healthcare facilities. The present study aimed to investigate the attitudes of healthcare providers toward patient safety in the operating room in the teaching hospitals in Isfahan, Iran. Materials & Methods: This cross-sectional, descriptive-analytical study was conducted on 217 healthcare practitioners in the teaching hospitals in Isfahan, Iran in 2018. The research units were selected via quota sampling. Data were collected using the standard safety attitude questionnaire (SAQ). Data analysis was performed in SPSS version 18 using descriptive and inferential statistics (independent t-test and Pearson's correlation-coefficient). Results: The mean score of the total safety attitude of the healthcare providers was 59.06±11.84 (total: 100). The highest score belonged to the dimension of stress recognition, with the mean score of 79.93±17.46, and the lowest score belonged to the dimension of working conditions, with the mean score of 48.01±18.07. Accordingly, 49.3% of the participants described their patient safety attitude to be good/excellent, while 50.7% described their attitude to be average/poor. Conclusion: According to the results, the average safety attitude was not ideal in the operating room personnel. Therefore, it is recommended that hospital managers and staff attempt to implement effective interventions in order to promote the culture and attitude of patient safety in the operating room personnel.
similar resources
Operating room professionals’ attitudes towards patient safety and the influencing factors
Objective To determine operating room professionals'attitudes towards patient safety and the influencing factors. Methods This study was conducted in research hospitals in Izmir, Turkey using descriptive, cross-sectional and correlation research designs. The sample of this study consisted of 477 individuals including nurses, physicians and anesthesia technicians. Data were collected using the...
full textUsing Fuzzy FMEA to Increase Patient Safety in Fundamental Processes of Operating Room
Risk assessment is a standard tool in health care systems which is used to improve patient safety. Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) as a powerful risk assessment tool for safety and reliability widely applied by industries such as aerospace, nuclear, automotive, chemical, mechanical, medical technologies, and electronics. FMEA is popular technique, but it has some substantial deficienci...
full textlearners’ attitudes toward the effectiveness of mobile-assisted language learning (mall) in vocabulary acquisition in the iranian efl context: the case of word lists, audiobooks and dictionary use
رشد انفجاری تکنولوژی فرصت های آموزشی مهیج و جدیدی را پیش روی فراگیران و آموزش دهندگان گذاشته است. امروزه معلمان برای اینکه در امر آموزش زبان بروز باشند باید روش هایی را اتخاذ نمایند که درآن ها از تکنولوژی جهت کمک در یادگیری زبان دوم و چندم استفاده شده باشد. با در نظر گرفتن تحولاتی که رشته ی آموزش زبان در حال رخ دادن است هم اکنون زمان مناسبی برای ارزشیابی نگرش های موجود نسبت به تکنولوژی های جدید...
15 صفحه اولA prospective study of patient safety in the operating room.
BACKGROUND To better understand the operating room as a system and to identify system features that influence patient safety, we performed an analysis of operating room patient care using a prospective observational technique. METHODS A multidisciplinary team comprised of human factors experts and surgeons conducted prospective observations of 10 complex general surgery cases in an academic h...
full textBrazilian Healthcare Professionals: A Study of Attitudes Toward Organ Donation.
BACKGROUND Healthcare professionals have a crucial role in organ donation and transplantation processes. Their attitude toward organ donation can affect public opinion and the donation decision made by deceased donors' relatives. The objectives of the study were to analyze the attitude of medical and nursing personnel toward deceased organ donation in two hospitals in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, an...
full textMy Resources
Journal title
volume 32 issue 117
pages 80- 90
publication date 2019-04
By following a journal you will be notified via email when a new issue of this journal is published.
No Keywords
Hosted on Doprax cloud platform doprax.com
copyright © 2015-2023