An Inquiry into the Patient Safety Management Patterns: A Review Study

Background and aims: Patient safety, as one of the main components of the health care quality, impliesavoiding any injury and damage to the patient when providing health care services. In other words,patient safety means his or her safety against any adverse and harmful event when receiving health careservices. Based on the above-mention explanations, the present study was conducted to determine thepatterns of patient safety management.Methods: A systematic review method was used to meet the objectives of the study. In order to accessthe scientific documentation and evidence related to the subject published during 1998-2018, Englishkeywords including “Patient Safety Model”, “Patient Safety”, and “Patient Safety of Management” weresearched in Medine, PubMed, and Google Scholar databases and Persian versions of these keywordswere also looked for in Jihad-e Daneshgahi’s Scientific Information Database (SID) and Iranian Journalsdatabase (Magiran).Results: The findings of this study suggested that most of the studies on designing a model for patientsafety highlighted important dimensions including guidance and leadership, communication,organizing, information management, control and monitoring, participation and decision-making, aswell as planning and coordination.Conclusion: In general, using patterns and frameworks designed for patient safety improves patientsafety against uncertain incidents since the human and financial consequences of such incidentsimpose overwhelming sufferings on patients.