Patient Safety Culture

Abstract

Background: Adverse events occurring in medical care delivery are a crucial source of newlinemorbidity and mortality throughout the world. Although there are no reliable estimates of newlinethe size of the problem in developing countries, it is likely that millions of disabling newlineinjuries or deaths can be directly attributable to medical care. Doing no harm to the newlinepatients is the motto, however, it is always that the problems occur in the course of newlinehealthcare delivery. Hospitals are trying to prevent a number of medical errors both latent newlineconditions and active through appropriate tools and techniques which ensures patient newlinesafety. Therefore patient safety has become an important component of health care newlinequality. Patient safety is a practice and continuous efforts of care providers at all levels newlineand at all time. It is associated with hospital work culture. It can be term as patient safety newlineculture. Patient Safety Culture is an important measure in assessing the quality of newlinehealthcare (Aspden et al., 2004). There is a growing recognition of the need to establish a newlineculture of hospital focused on patient safety. Patient safety in the context of healthcare newlineorganizations was highlighted following the Institute of Management (IOM) Report To newlineErr is Human: Building a Safer Health System (Kohn et al., 1999). This report argued newlinefor a safety culture in which adverse events can be reported without people being blamed newlineand that when mistakes occur that lessons are learned. Therefore, if hospitals want to newlineimprove patient safety, it is important to know more about the views of their staff in newlinerelation to the culture of patient safety. To date, many developed countries have initiated newlinethe research into the role played by patient safety culture. But in developing countries newlinelike India, research in this vital area is still limited. India has faced several high profile newlineincidents in which the safety of patients was grossly neglected (Gupta and Sriniviasan, newline2012). During the course of treatment, there is number of incidents as well