background patient safety is one of the major issues which are concerned with the world health organization (who) and the medical community in developing and developed countries. based on studies, about 10 % of patients admitted in hospitals will be damaged. objectives the aim of this study was to evaluate patient safety climate among nurses and their roles for predicting medical errors. patien...

BACKGROUND Auditing of patient safety aims at early detection of risks of adverse events and is intended to encourage the continuous improvement of patient safety. The auditing should be an independent, objective assurance and consulting system. Auditing helps an organisation accomplish its objectives by bringing a systematic, disciplined approach to evaluating and improving the effectiveness o...

BACKGROUND Patients have the potential to provide feedback on the safety of their care. Recently, tools have been developed that ask patients to provide feedback on those factors that are known to contribute to safety, therefore providing information that can be used proactively to manage safety in hospitals. The aim of this study was to investigate whether the safety information provided by pa...

Background & Aims of the Study: one of the most important health aspects health care systems is patient safety and medication errors can threaten this safety. The purpose of this research was evaluation of refusing to report the medication errors and effect on Patent safety in Razi teaching hospital after healthcare reform during 2014-2015. Materials and Methods: This study is cross-sectiona...

Aim: To document 1) that patient safety culture scores vary not only by individual responder, but also, and to a large degree, by ward and department, and 2) that more of the variation is across wards than across departments. Setting: 500-bed Norwegian university hospital September-December 2006. Methods: Data collected from 1400 staff by (the Norwegian version of) the generic version of the Sa...