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Abstract
Patient safety is a serious global public health issue. In recent years, countries have increasingly recognized the importance of improving patient safety. Estimates show that in developed countries as many as one in 10 patients is harmed while receiving hospital care. The harm can be caused by a range of errors or adverse events.
The aim of this work is to assess patient safety culture in primary health care in Kuwait . The results of this study will help to find out the health care providers background and knowledge of patient safety, to raise the area of deficiencies in patient safety culture.
A descriptive cross sectional study was conducted over a period of three months using an HSOPS adopted questionnaire. The survey measured fourteen dimensions related to patient safety culture within hospitals through 44 items in addition to seven items as background variables related to the surveyed staff demographics.
The results of this study showed that all the fourteen (14) safety culture dimensions should be given care and attention. According to prioritization, there are six safety dimensions with lowest positivity and need to be considered of high priority focused areas. These dimensions are the Non – punitive response to errors, Frequency of event reporting, Staffing, Communication Openness, Center Handoffs and Transitions, Supervisor/Manager expectations and actions promoting safety with the following percentages of positivity 24%, 32%, 41%, 45%, 47% and 53% respectively.
Thus it is concluded that patient safety culture in primary healthcare in Kuwait is not as strong as expected for the provision of safe health care and the above six mentioned dimensions of lowest positivity are areas for potential improvement.
It is recommended to :
Make patient safety a priority over production, personal attendance of managers at safety meeting and walk round , reward rather than punish those who report near-misses, errors, injuries and poor care, to have Open communication in a culture of safety is an atmosphere of mutual trust and also Supervisors must appreciate the role of junior staff and providing safety education to front-line staff, mangers and physicians