background : due to specific conditions in hospitals such as accumulation, existence of disable persons and patients, different and complex equipment, chemical and infectious substances, flammable materials and ionized radiations, safety precautions is essential to prevent the occurrence of incidents such as fire, electric shock hazard and exposure to excessive levels in hospitals. this was the...

introduction: patient safety improvement requires ongoing culture. this cultural change is the most important challenge that managers are faced with in creation of a safe system. this study aims to show the results of initiatives to improvement in patient safety culture in fateme al-zahra hospital. method: in the quasi-experimental research, patient safety culture was measured using the persian...

background and objectives: patient safety culture is increasingly recognized as an essential driver of patient safety. to establish patient safety culture, firstly the current status of the construct should be assessed. valid assessment of patient safety culture is contingent on the availability of appropriate measurement tools. hospital survey on patient safety culture (hsops) developed by the...

background and objectives: pharmacovigilance is central to the control of the menace of adverse drugs reactions. despite the fact that development of policy and practice framework to improve patients’ safety partly rely on availability of authentic data on pharmacovigilance activities, knowledge about pharmacovigilance activities among healthcare professionals in nigeria is limited. to help fil...

background and objectives: effective nurse-physician communication is essential for provision of high quality clinical care. research into nurse-physician communication is a new field in iran, and the importance of the issue calls for further investigation. in response to this necessity, this study aimed to assess nurses’ perception of nurse-physician communication in teaching hospitals affilia...

conclusions although, successful implementation of high reliability organizations is based on knowledge of managers and supervisors, the effectiveness of this model is still in the maturity and readiness phase. results after holding high reliability model training course, 52.2% of respondents expressed obtaining a keen knowledge of high reliability organizations model. compared to knowledge of ...

Background and Objectives: Medical Errors and adverse events have recently turned into one of the predominant concerns of health-policy makers and health services providers. Promoting safety culture is fundamental to sustainable safety improvement in healthcare settings. The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of training on nurses’ attitudes towards safety culture.   Methods: A ...

Background and Objectives: Safety signs will be useful if they are distinctive and attractive for individuals, and individuals can communicate with them, because they will not be able to identify the risks and actions necessary to avoid the risk if they do not understand properly. Therefore, this study aimed to determine the level of perception of hospital safety signs and rela...

Hospitals are a symbol of social welfare and the last refuge of patients, which is the most important issue of the health system. Patient safety is the first and most important issue for the health system.  Before COVID-19, the World Health Organization (WHO) defined the Hospital Safety Index (HSI) to measure hospital preparedness for disasters. During the COVID-19 crisis, hospitals faced many ...

Background and Objectives: Mental and physical safety is one of the most important needs of human beings, and the administrators of each community should specifically care about it. Meanwhile, hospitals, which themselves are health care providers, are in no way an exception to this rule. Thus, hospital administrators are expected to take the issues related to physical and mental safety of staff...